[Klug-general] DBus Problem

[Dan Attwood]

LOL, yeah it's pretty rubbish but then dapper does has 5 year support so
unless you want to be bleeding edge (which is probably everybody on this
list) you shouldn't need to reinstall it for ages.

On 10/07/06, Allen Brooker <allen at allenjb.me.uk> wrote:
>
> 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 6.06using
> >     > 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.
> >     >
>
>
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