[Klug-general] DBus Problem

[Allen Brooker]

I thought we were trying to get away from the Windows way of doing things!

Dan Attwood wrote:
> There have been quite a few reports on the ubuntu forums about problems
> with upgrading, all kinds of little things seem to go wrong. I think
> their official line now is that you should do a fresh install rather
> then an upgrade - bit of pain on a 6 monthly distro but there you go.
> 
> I'd try other peoples suggestions first though
> 
> Dan
> 
> On 10/07/06, *Kevin Groves* <kevin.groves at kentpharm.co.uk
> <mailto:kevin.groves at kentpharm.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Peter Childs wrote:
>     > Ever since I upgraded my home PC from Ubuntu 5.10 to Ubuntu 6.06 using
>     > the upgrade system, (Rather than a reinstall) DBus causes my machine
>     > to freeze. ending up with the need to hit the reboot button.
>     >
>     Are you *really* sure it's DBUS? I had a strange random lockup and it
>     came down to the longhaul module in the powersave system. Some bug in it
>     for the BIOS in the machine. Double check dmesg and /var/log/messages to
>     make sure theres no strange error messages during the boot process
>     especially during module loading.
> 
>     Kev,
> 
>     > Currently I've got DBus system switched off and the only thing that
>     > does not work is the shutdown option in Gnome. I think is the HAL that
>     > actually causes the freeze. It does not really cause the computer to
>     > panic as such but stop being able to communicate with all the
>     > hardware, Keyboard, Mouse Network, Screen, Harddisk, etc I think Linux
>     > is still running, but you can't do much withit once you can't contact
>     > the hardware.
>     >
>     > DBus from what I've managed to find out sounds far to complicated and
>     > under documentated to do its job properly. Its probably that modern
>     > graphical OS are complicated full stop.
>     >
>     > Any ideas would be helpful.
>     >
>     > I did have had other version of Linux on the machine freeze in the
>     > same way with DBus too including SUSE if I remember correctly......
>     > But I just re-installed that some time ago.
>     >
>     > Any help would be most wellcome. Some how I would prefer to be able to
>     > reboot my machine using somthing other that Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
>     >
>     > Peter.
>     >