dbus broken

[frantix]

hi,
i don't know if this is the right place for my topic but I think it is the best place I found.

since a few days the gentoo system on my laptop issues an error with the dbus starting at boot time.

# /etc/init.d/dbus start
localmount
* ERROR: Some services needed are missing. Run
* './dbus broken' for a list of those
* services. dbus was not started.

# ./hald start
* Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ...
^C * ERROR: hald caught an interrupt


the command "./dbus broken" brings as result: localmount
which is started at runlevel boot

the following command verifies that fact
$ rc-status boot
Runlevel: boot
acpid [ started ]
alsasound [ started ]
bootmisc [ started ]
checkfs [ started ]
checkroot [ started ]
clock [ started ]
consolefont [ started ]
hostname [ started ]
keymaps [ started ]
localmount [ started ]
modules [ started ]
net.lo [ started ]
rmnologin [ started ]
urandom [ started ]

$ rc-status
Runlevel: default
dbus [ stopped ]
hald [ stopped ]
local [ started ]
net.eth0 [ started ]
netmount [ started ]
syslog-ng [ started ]
vixie-cron [ started ]
xdm [ started ]

the status of the default-runlevel services show that dbus and hald are not started and can not be started via the command line (init-script)

I don't understand why the ./dbus broken issues localmount despite that service is already started before.
can anybody help me in that matter?

ps. I dont know exactly but I think the first time the error occured was after installing firefox-3, I unmasked the following packages via packages.keywords:
=www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.1
=dev-libs/nspr-4.7.1
=dev-libs/nss-3.12

[notHerbert]

You could try running revdep-rebuild, and also re-emerging dbus and hal.

Hopefully this will fix it.

[frantix]

I already did this but that does not work, sorry

any other suggestions?

[NathanZachary]

Please post the output of emerge --info. If you are using dbus-1.2.3, then downgrade to 1.1.20.
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[frantix]

$ emerge --info dbus
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8100 @ 2.10GHz
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:17:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r6
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1
sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo ftp://gentoo.inode.at/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cvs dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer hal iconv ieee1394 ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kde kerberos laptop ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xinerama xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

=================================================================
Package Settings
=================================================================
sys-apps/dbus-1.1.20 was built with the following:
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona -pipe -rdynamic"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=nocona -pipe -rdynamic"
USE="X doc"

>>> Attempting to run pkg_info() for 'sys-apps/dbus-1.1.20'
* pkg_info() is not defined: 'dbus-1.1.20.ebuild'