When starting dbus, I get this: # /etc/init.d/dbus restart * Starting D-BUS system messagebus ... Unknown username "root" in message bus configuration file Unknown username "haldaemon" in message bus configuration file Unknown username "root" in message bus configuration file Unknown group "plugdev" in message bus configuration file Unknown group "plugdev" in message bus configuration file Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID for username "messagebus" * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/dbus-daemon' [ !! ] * ERROR: dbus failed to start I don't know what's wrong there as I don't know dbus enough :/ Help is very welcome. 1.2.1 was fine; for now I'm tempted to unkeyword 1.2.3 until this is fixed.
It's basically trying to look up the user accounts listed in the configuration file. It would appear that getpwnam() and friends are not returning what it's expecting. There's probably a patch in FreeBSD's ports. I don't have a Gentoo/FreeBSD box to test or debug this on so you're going to have to do a little leg work yourself. The first step would be to check FreeBSD's ports to see if they have a patch for this and try it. If not, run D-Bus through strace and provide that output so we can see exactly what call its failing on.
(In reply to comment #1) > There's probably a patch in FreeBSD's ports. There is none: they're still at 1.2.1 afaik > I don't have a Gentoo/FreeBSD box to test or debug this on so you're going to > have to do a little leg work yourself. The first step would be to check > FreeBSD's ports to see if they have a patch for this and try it. If not, run > D-Bus through strace and provide that output so we can see exactly what call > its failing on. There is no strace available but I can play with ktrace/kdump. Doing some debugging showed that code in dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c:1489 (and bus/dbus-sysdeps-util-unix.c:831 for the groups) size_t buflen; buflen = sysconf (_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX); if (buflen <= 0) buflen = 1024; fun: sysconf (_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX) returns -1 here and the if(buflen<=0) check is useless since buflen is unsigned. Changing both buflen types to ssize_t fixes the issue here...
(In reply to comment #2) > There is no strace available but I can play with ktrace/kdump. > truss is your friend :+P
Looks like bug #224745 and this are related.
(In reply to comment #4) > Looks like bug #224745 and this are related. iirc #224745 is due to fbsd 6 not supporting well pie executables; this one is a coding mistake with signed/unsigned integer types in dbus.
I backported upstream fix in 1.2.3-r1 and rekeyworded it -> fixed
