[Bug 429853] Re: assertion failed in file dbus-errors.c line 278.

[Paul Sladen]

If I'm a dumb user, I have no idea what "HAL" is, or what "libchipcard"
is, or how to "start" or "stop" them.

If libchipcard is getting started in the wrong order, then that is
something that needs fixing in the packaging.

If HAL is a dependency of libchipcard and is not found running (eg. HAL
crashed, or was restarted during an upgrade asi in this case) then
libchipcard needs to deal with that situation and cope with it, not
generate errors.  ...libchipcard should *check* if HAL running, before
attempting to call it.  If something fails and nothing has changed,
trying to perform the same operation 10 seconds later is _also_ likely
to fail.

At no point should libchipcard ever be generating errors though its own
inaction or lack of error/sanity checking before or after performing
RPC.

Lack of such error+sanity checking is probably also an indication of
potential security issues.

(Back to being a dump user---if I hit the power switch, the machine
should "just work"...)

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assertion failed in file dbus-errors.c line 278.
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