dependency problem while doing safe-upgrade

[Colin Law]

On 8 February 2011 09:21, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> On 4 February 2011 10:17, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I executed aptitude safe-upgrade on 10.04 64 bit server here are the
>>> dependency problems I met
>>>
>>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/562399/
>>>
>>> Let me know if some one can point out what should I be checking.
>>
>> The first error:-
>>
>> Setting up dbus (1.2.16-2ubuntu4.1) ...
>> The system user `messagebus' already exists. Exiting.
>> Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Did not receive a
>> reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a
>> reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply
>> timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
>> dpkg: error processing dbus (--configure):
>>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>
>> Caused the subsequent errors:-
>>
>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of consolekit:
>>  consolekit depends on dbus (>= 1.1.2); however:
>>  Package dbus is not configured yet.
>> dpkg: error processing consolekit (--configure):
>>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>
>> Al.
>>
> I checked a bit more
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/705644
> here in second message a person says
>
> "Also seen in Maverick. Work-around does the trick. Just don't try it
> on the server if you're logged in to a graphical session (it dies on
> the purge)! See full activity log"
>
> but he does not mention what is the work around.

Try reading the first message on the bug, the workaround is in there.
Also notice that it is marked as a duplicate of another bug, so that
bug will contain the latest information on it.

Colin

> Searching for this problem on internet
> http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=Setting+up+dbus+%281.2.16-2ubuntu4.1%29+...+The+system+user+%60messagebus%27+already+exists.+Exiting.+Failed+to+open+connection+to+%22system%22+message+bus%3A+Did+n&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
>
> I get my threads only which do not help.
>
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