[quantal] dbus: upgrade fails in chroot

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Setting up dbus (1.6.4-1ubuntu1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init/dbus.conf ...
Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
start: Unable to connect to Upstart: Failed to connect to socket /com/ubuntu/upstart: Connection refused
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing dbus (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: dbus 1.6.4-1ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: cpufreq_stats cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_userspace parport_pc ppdev lp parport bnep rfcomm bluetooth uinput ecryptfs dm_crypt dm_mod arc4 snd_hda_codec_idt iwl4965 snd_hda_intel iwl_legacy snd_hda_codec mac80211 snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm cfg80211 snd_page_alloc snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi joydev pcmcia snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_timer iTCO_wdt snd yenta_socket pcmcia_rsrc pcmcia_core dell_wmi sparse_keymap iTCO_vendor_support soundcore acpi_cpufreq mperf psmouse i2c_i801 serio_raw evdev rng_core coretemp battery processor ac ext4 crc16 jbd2 mbcache btrfs crc32c libcrc32c zlib_deflate usbhid hid sd_mod crc_t10dif dell_laptop ata_generic i915 rfkill power_supply dcdbas ata_piix libata uhci_hcd scsi_mod i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper sdhci_pci drm ehci_hcd sdhci mmc_core firewire_ohci tg3 libphy video wmi firewire_core crc_itu_t button thermal usbcore i2c_core thermal_sys usb_common
ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 4 10:47:51 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dbus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[gregrwm (gregrwm)]

i installed quantal core (2012-10-16 ubuntu-core-12.10-core-amd64.tar.gz) in a chroot, then, installing dbus yields:

Setting up dbus (1.6.4-1ubuntu4) ...
start: Unknown job: dbus
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing dbus (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

as a result, dbus, and all packages that depend upon it, remain "unconfigured", causing app failures (eg gnucash fails to find config data).

this appears nearly identical to Bug #728434 albeit that bug claims to be fixed

[fa2k (pmb)]

Is there a way to work around this bug, to install packages which depend on dbus, while waiting for a proper fix? (I don't think I even need a dbus daemon in the chroot, because I have set up bind-mounts for it to communicate with the main system's dbus and changed the machine_id)

[fa2k (pmb)]

Here's how to work around it:
- Back up /sbin/start
- Replace /sbin/start with a script that does nothing,
#!/bin/sh
exit 0
 - Make it executable, # chmod +x /sbin/start
 - Run the apt update
 - (Restore start if desired)

[Darxus (darxus)]

I had a very similar looking problem, not under chroot, but running over ssh, on a server. Is this expected to work in that situation? Bug #1311368