Are smolt/dbus working well? (Re: New FC 8 kernel RPMS in updates)

[Kazuyoshi Furutaka]

Hi all,

From: Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at>
Subject: Re: New FC 8 kernel RPMS in updates
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:41:18 +0200

> Steven Moix wrote:
> >> but if you look at the smolt stats, they
> >>> don't seem to be updated...the stats are 2 weeks old.
> >> Hm. But I remember I looked a few days ago and alpha had a count of 5.
> >> So updates are happening...
> > 
> > There seems to be a cache problem somewhere. I tried to access the stats
> > on 2 different computers, with 2 different browsers and at EACH refresh
> > of the page, I get another date. April 9, 17 or 23 :)
> 
> A few reloads and similar happens. I see alpha listed with count of 5
> and 7 :-(

On my alpha machine running the Fedora-8 based distro,
it seems that smolt is not working properly due to dbus
failure and that its profile was not sent.


When I try to send the profile, it failed as the following:

[furutaka at ram ~]$ smoltSendProfile 
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/smoltSendProfile", line 35, in <module>
      from scan import scan, rating
    File "/usr/share/smolt/client/scan.py", line 30, in <module>
      h = smolt.Hardware()
    File "/usr/share/smolt/client/smolt.py", line 336, in __init__
      raise SystemBusError, _('Could not bind to dbus.  Is dbus running?')
  smolt.SystemBusError: Could not bind to dbus.  Is dbus running?


On my x86_64 machine there're two dbus-daemon processes,

  [furutaka at peart ~]$ ps auxw|grep [d]bus-daemon
  dbus      1879  0.0  0.0  30068  1568 ?        Ssl  Apr03   0:03 \
    dbus-daemon --system
  furutaka  2549  0.0  0.0  30068  1112 ?        Ssl  Apr03   0:00 \
    /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 8 --session

but NONE on the alpha machine.


Another symptom is start-up failure of some dbus dependent?
services during the boot:
  ...
  Starting wpa_supplicant: /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, , \
    dbus_bus_get[ctrl_iface_dbus]: Success Failed to initialize \
    wpa_supplicant
  ...
  Starting anacron: error: libhal_ctx_set_dbus_connection: \
    org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket \
    /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused


Finally in /var/log/messages other system-bus related errors
were recorded:
  ...
  Apr 25 21:36:53 ram kernel: dbus-daemon(1399): unaligned trap at \
    000002000104085c: 000000011fe352c1 28 3
  Apr 25 21:36:53 ram kernel: dbus-daemon(1399): unaligned trap at \
    000002000104087c: 000000011fe352c1 2c 1
  ...
  Apr 26 22:06:14 ram console-kit-daemon[1541]: WARNING: Couldn't \
   connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket \
   /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
  ...
  Apr 26 22:06:16 ram avahi-daemon[1574]: dbus_bus_get_private(): \
    Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: \
    Connection refused
  Apr 26 22:06:16 ram avahi-daemon[1574]: WARNING: Failed to contact \
  D-Bus daemon.


Yours,
Kazuyoshi
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Kazuyoshi Furutaka
furutaka at jb3.so-net.ne.jp