[Klug-general] DBus Problem

[Peter Childs]

On 10/07/06, Kevin Groves <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,
>

Hmm No I'm pretty sure its HAL (which is part of DBus I guess) ie If I
switch DBus off it does not crash and is actually quite stable. Can't
see anything in the logs which looks like a likely candidate, I'm
suspecting power management.

Peter.
> > 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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