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Description of problem: abrtd need dbus which is provided by messagebus daemon. User might disable messagebus which cause abrtd cannot start: === abrtd: Failed to start: timeout waiting for child === abrtd -vvvv show the correct reason: === abrtd: dbus error: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory abrtd: Error requesting DBus name com.redhat.abrt, possible reasons: abrt run by non-root; dbus config is incorrect; or dbus daemon needs to be restarted to reload dbus config abrtd: Failed to start: timeout waiting for child === You might also think about change the warning message of /etc/init.d/abrtd, it don't provide any useful information with "timeout waiting for child". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 6.1 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Stop messagebus daemon 2. Start abrtd daemon Actual results: abrtd start failed with meaningless error message. Expected results: Abrtd require messagebus in LBS header and provide useful error message to user. Additional info:
(In reply to comment #0) > Description of problem: > > abrtd need dbus which is provided by messagebus daemon. User might disable > messagebus which cause abrtd cannot start: > === > abrtd: Failed to start: timeout waiting for child this is printed out, but take a look at /var/log/message. The rest of error message is there. If you invoke abrtd without -d and -v it will put all logs into /var/log/message > You might also think about change the warning message of /etc/init.d/abrtd, it > don't provide any useful information with "timeout waiting for child". that message comes from abrtd binary not from init script
Thanks for the info. Then we only update the LSB header as the subject of this bug.
I'm going to close the bug as NOTABUG. The reasonable message is printed out to /var/log/messages when -d and -v options are not specified. Feel free to reopen for rhel6.3 if you think that message needs to be printed out for stderr without options -d and -v.
commit f1ddb9c8cb8fb1ce536757770245a09bc5c731ab Author: Nikola Pajkovsky <npajkovs> Date: Wed Sep 7 17:32:09 2011 +0200 update LSB header Signed-off-by: Nikola Pajkovsky <npajkovs> (cherry picked from commit f853345031ae3e8cf39d1608aa0a2adb14a1ef8c)
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1598.html