On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:

I downgraded immediately due to having some things to finish off. At that time dbus was at 1.6.8-4, now its 1.6.8-5 (just updated again as today I have a bit of time to debug).

Just to be clear: can you reproduce this bug with 1.6.8-5 (in [core])?

Most likely cause I can see is (may be) the filesystem update. I have gshadow, shadow, group, and passwd pacnew files, but no idea how to merge them (should I swap the dbus IDs from the pacnew files in?).

Are you seeing a different uid/gid now compared to before? It should always have been 81/81. The only known issue is that in some rare circumstances you now have to manually start dbus-launch as we no longer ship the xinitrc.d file [0][1]. Cheers, Tom [0]: http://www.mail-archive.com/arch-dev-public@archlinux.org/msg20512.html [1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32952

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:

Hi all, started having this problem a couple of days back with the dbus-core removal move (and corresponding filesystem update).

http://pastebin.com/JKMN58jP is the result of journalctl -b

A whole bunch of my applications cannot contact dbus. Firefox is one, even pulseaudio complains (though sound still works as it still runs, go figure). gnucash cannot start, etc. etc., but those are just symptoms. Oh, and ario and synapse are dumping core.

I downgraded immediately due to having some things to finish off. At that time dbus was at 1.6.8-4, now its 1.6.8-5 (just updated again as today I have a bit of time to debug).

Most likely cause I can see is (may be) the filesystem update. I have gshadow, shadow, group, and passwd pacnew files, but no idea how to merge them (should I swap the dbus IDs from the pacnew files in?). The original files worked after a downgrade.

Thanks for your help & time.

Sigh, and of course after I sent the message (which was prepared earlier) I realize that overnight as I slept there were forum posts etc. about the topic. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32952 said to start dbus-launch, which seems to work, so adding to my xinitrc. Continuing discussion there.