Hi,
On 09/09/2013 09:42 AM, Jim Barber wrote:
> Regarding the restart of dbus.
>
> I made the mistake of answering Y to a restart of dbus on a desktop system.
> This immediately killed X (and so all my X applications) and gdm
> outright and dropped me back to a login: prompt on the text based
> virtual console.
> Further research shows that it seems to be a bad idea to restart the
> dbus process.
>
> I'm not sure if there are ways to determine if it is safe to restart
> dbus or not,
checking on Wheezy using KDM+KDE works just fine... but Sid and/or GDM
might behave different.
> I've restarted it in the past on headless systems without encountering
> any issues, but perhaps I was just lucky?
> Maybe dbus should be added to a list of processes that needrestart
> shouldn't restart?
Absolutely, I'm still pondering howto implement this in detail (ignore
any GUI touching processes like dbus, display managers etc. or just warn
the user somehow intensely) but it should be improved somehow.
Thanks,
Thomas
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