Bug 343265

Summary:	dbus ebuild should contain dbus-uuidgen --ensure in postinst
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	M. B. <tomboy64>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description M. B. 2010-10-29 15:38:18 UTC

Upon setup of new systems i usually run into an XServer failing to start, complaining about a missing dbus UUID. Running dbus-uuidgen --ensure solves this. 

From its manpage:
#The primary usage of dbus-uuidgen is to run in the post-install script of a D-Bus package like this:
  dbus-uuidgen --ensure

This will ensure that /var/lib/dbus/machine-id exists and has the uuid in it. It won't overwrite an existing uuid, since this id should remain fixed for a single machine until the next reboot at least.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-11-02 20:45:40 UTC

It does.

dbus-1.2.24-r2.ebuild:	dbus-uuidgen --ensure="${ROOT}"/var/lib/dbus/machine-id
dbus-1.4.0.ebuild:	dbus-uuidgen --ensure="${ROOT}"/var/lib/dbus/machine-id

Stabilization in bug 343323