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

[From: Ross Burton]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 17:44 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Why does restarting the system bus (as in "/etc/init.d/dbus restart")
> reboot the device (on an N770 with Gregale)?

I'm guessing because the system bus dying is a fatal condition.

> I noticed it while porting the `avahi-daemon' package [0] whose postinst
> script normally restarts the system bus (for reasons that escape me).

It only needs to reload the bus, which (IIRC) can be achieved by sending
SIGUSR1 or passing "reload" to the init script.

Ross
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