[arch-dev-public] [RFC] dbus cleanup

[Dave Reisner]

On Dec 3, 2012 7:06 AM, "Tom Gundersen" <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > Some fun here...
> >
> > (1/1) removing dbus-core
> > [######################] 100%
> > userdel: user dbus is currently used by process 336
> > groupdel: cannot remove the primary group of user 'dbus'
> > error: command failed to execute correctly
> >
> > Obviously nothing to be concerned about...
>
> Oh, nice... I don't know why I didn't get that message.
>
> Anyway, it is not a problem. If for some reason the removal should
> work, then the user/group will be added back immediately by the dbus
> upgrade.
>
> Any suggestions on how these messages can be avoided?
>
> -t

I do hate our filesystem upgrades since /sys was made RO and pacman tries
to remove it, but perhaps we should move the dbus user there. I think as a
general rule, packages in [core] should probably avoid creating users and
groups to avoid problems we've seen recently.