[maemo-developers] Restarting the D-Bus system bus

[From: Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Frédéric Crozat <fred at crozat.net> writes:

> Because, by default, libdbus causes client exit when D-Bus bus exit. It
> can be changed with an API call (a lot of program are handling D-Bus
> restart nicely) but Avahi doesn't :(

Avahi's not at fault here.  And I think `avahi-daemon' can handle bus
restarts.

mss at mawhrin.net (Mikhail Sobolev) writes:

> If any of the "important" applications are not available, watching
> daemon would reboot the device because if an "important" application
> could not handle the situation, then it must be something serious.

So, to put it differently: any idea which essential application is
failing?

It looks as though we had init="/usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system".  ;-)

Thanks,
Ludovic.