[arch-dev-public] Dangerous dbus update for testing
Dan McGee
dpmcgee at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 17:12:16 EDT 2008
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
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>
> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 15:42 -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> > > There's a dangerous dbus update coming up for the testing repository.
> > > The package itself isn't so special, as it works fine, but the fact that
> > > every dbus-daemon process on your system will crash during the upgrade
> > > can lead to unpleasant surprises.
> > >
> > > Testing users: please be aware of this and run your upcoming upgrades
> > > from a plain text console instead of from X. One of the unpleasant
> > > surprises is that xorg-server in testing goes down with dbus while it's
> > > upgrading, leading to loss of important work or an interrupted package
> > > upgrade process.
> >
> > Awesome. I had something similar happen to me when a status script for
> > my screen session segfaulted while it was upgrading bash... took
> > screen down, and thus killed bash too... fun times.
> >
> > Is there *any* way around this?
>
> No, there isn't. The structure of dbus 1.1 is completely different from
> 1.0. Dbus 1.0 has a configuration-validation algorithm that validates
> the configuration before doing a reload, but as the new installed
> configuration is completely valid, but just different from what 1.0 can
> handle, your 1.0 daemon will crash.
>
> As xorg-server doesn't set the right flags when opening the dbus
> connection and integrating it in the mainloop, it will exit together
> with your crashing dbus daemon, taking down all programs running inside
> X without any warning. I was not amused when I upgraded it on my system
> last monday.
Is there any better way to handle this? When this gets moved to extra,
people -Syu first, read front page news later.
I ask because I can't really think of a better way. Dang this is stupid.
-Dan
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