On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:10:04 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> More on D_BUS. The install creates /var/run/dbus, but that will go away
> with a reboot. We need to figure out a way to create it upon boot.
>
> The first LFS boot script, mountvirtfs, does:
>
> mkdir -p /run
> mount -n /run || failed=1
> mkdir -p /run/{var,lock,shm}
>
> The /etc/sysconfig/rc.site is sourced so we need to change rc.site with
> something like:
>
> RUNSUBS="${RUNSUBS} dbus"
>
> and add to mountvirtfs:
>
> for D in ${RUNSUBS}; do mkdir -p $D; done
>
> For other subdirectories of /var/run we would only need to add
>
> RUNSUBS="${RUNSUBS} subdir"
>
> to the end of rc.site.
>
> A second option would be to just hard code any needed directories like
> we do with {var,lock,shm}. A directory entry is negligible if it is not
> used.
>
> A third option would be to add it to the dbus bootscript, but that is
> not required if the user is just adding dbus-launch to the appropriate
> line in the ~/.xinitrc file.
>
> Comments?
Another option (which works for me) is to configure dbus:
--with-system-socket=/run/dbus_socket --with-system-pid-file=/run/dbus.pid
Andy
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