Attention: dbus 0.60-6 breaks avahi, hal ...

[Dan Williams]

On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 15:12 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 19:56 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Joachim Frieben wrote:
> > 
> > >After udating "dbus" packages to version 0.60-6, "avahi" and
> > >"hal" daemons fail to start up correctly during system boot.
> > >This is very annoying when logging in to a "GNOME" session
> > >as various applications such as the "gnome-power-manager" stop
> > >to work. Media detection is of course also out of order.
> > >The breakage has appeared sometime between version 0.60-3 which
> > >works correctly and the current version. Downgrading to version
> > >0.60-3 allows to recover a working "GNOME" desktop.
> > >  
> > >
> > Looks like dbus is working fine but has a made a incompatible change and 
> > the other programs like avahi and g-p-m needs to be updated. Just a guess.
> 
> g-p-m is working fine with DBUS cvs -- but I believe J5 made some
> changes to the DBUS package for rawhide to put stuff in different
> directories. The breakage is probably due to that.

That shouldn't "break stuff" unless avahi and/or hal use paths to
dbus-send or stuff like that (dhclient-script does this, I've fixed it).
Perhaps they do.  Anyone care to check?

Dan