alex lupu wrote:

> 1. The Makefile doesn't seem to have an "uninstall-dbus" entry.

An oversight.

> 2. For some reason, the 'pid' and 'system_bus_socket' files are
> created in '/var/run/dbus/' and not in '/run/dbus' as one would
> expect by examining the dbus script.

> The '/run/dbus' directory _is_ created at boot-up time but ends up empty.

/var/run should be a symlink to /run so /run/dbus is created and is equivanet 
to 
/var/run/dbus.

> 3. I made a couple of _temporary_ changes in my 'dbus' script.
> In "start)" section:
> 
> 3.1. Just before 'start_daemon ...', I inserted
> 'rm -f /var/run/dbus/pid'
> 
> This is so that I can avoid the ugly message on my system boot-up:
> "Starting the D-Bus Messagebus Daemon...Failed to start message bus:
> The pid file "/var/run/dbus/pid" exists, if the message bus is not running,
> remove this file"

If you have the symlink /run will always be empty at boot.

> 3.2. Just before ';;', I inserted
>  'chown alex:users /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket'

> I know this one is sheer heresy, but I needed it for a quick and dirty
> test of the latest "Chrome" browser (134477) which works now but still
> looks for a "/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket":
> "ERROR: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket"
> (Chrome is very unhappy if run from anything other than a
> non-privileged account.)

Your rules.  :)

> Until I figure out a way to start 'dbus-daemon' from a user login
> cleanly in order to quiet down Chrome, the 3.2. work-around will have to do.
> Thanks for the suggestions in BLFS "D-BUS-1.4.20" but I've failed to
> find a stable and satisfactory solution so far.

Check the symlink and then see if you still have the problems.

   -- Bruce
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