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aptdaemon package

apt fails if dbus is not running

Bug #432310 reported by renbag
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: aptdaemon

When running in a chroot environment in karmic I get the following error after using apt-get update:

Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success '/usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=org.debian.apt --type=signal /org/debian/apt org.debian.apt.CacheChanged'
E: Sub-process returned an error code

The bug is similar to this one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/packagekit/+bug/388623

To solve it I changed this line:

APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success { "/usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=org.debian.apt --type=signal /org/debian/apt org.debian.apt.CacheChanged"; };

to

APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success { "[ ! -f /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket ] || /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --dest=org.debian.apt --type=signal /org/debian/apt org.debian.apt.CacheChanged"; };

in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20dbus

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

actually the test should be -S. This is an error in packagekit too. Thanks a lot. I fixed the bug upstream.

Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package aptdaemon - 0.10+bzr234-0ubuntu1

---------------
aptdaemon (0.10+bzr234-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream snapshot version:
    - less verbose debug (LP: #432937)
    - do not send dbus signal if dbus is not available (LP: #432310)
    - bugfixes
    - conffile handling
    - fix in progress code (LP #428964)
    - improvements in the logging

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:01:09 +0200

Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Paul Sladen (sladen)
summary: - apt fails in a chroot environment if dbus is not running
+ apt fails if dbus is not running
Revision history for this message
Juancarlo An~ez (apalala) wrote :

-S gives an alike error. -f lets apt finish.

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Chase Douglas (chasedouglas) wrote :

This is still a bug. As Juanca noted, using -S does not solve the issue. I was trying to build the debian-installer, and the make always failed because of this exact issue. When I changed the -S to -f, apt-get started working again. I have reopened the bug as 'confirmed'.

Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Confirmed
Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)
Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)
Changed in aptdaemon (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Probably "|| true" at the would be preferable; the concern here is that D-Bus failings (be that not running, or nothing listening at the other end) should not result in apt failures with an incomplete package state.

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote : Re: [Bug 432310] Re: apt fails if dbus is not running

Good point. I appended the ored true.

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