Bug#438803: apt cronjob complains about dbus

[Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1
Severity: normal

Recently, the daily apt cronjob started complaing about dbus:

/etc/cron.daily/apt:
Failed to open connection to system message bus: Failed to connect to socket
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused

The problem seems to be this part:

        if which dbus-send >/dev/null; then
            dbus-send --system / app.apt.dbus.updated boolean:true
        fi

which will fail when dbus is installed but no X/dbus/gnome/whatever
session is running.


-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "i386";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Periodic "";
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1";
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "1";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";
APT::Archives "";
APT::Archives::MaxAge "14";
APT::Archives::MaxSize "200";
APT::Archives::MinAge "2";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Acquire "";
Acquire::http "";
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://localhost:3128/";;
Acquire::ftp "";
Acquire::ftp::Proxy "http://localhost:3128/";;
Acquire::ftp::Passive "true";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

deb http://ftp.surfnet.nl/os/Linux/distr/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.surfnet.nl/os/Linux/distr/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.surfnet.nl/os/Linux/distr/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main 

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main

# wxwidgets
#deb http://www.proesdorf.de/debian/ etch main contrib

# spamassassin, amavis
#deb http://debian.jones.dk etch misc 

# mplayer
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main

# backports
#deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ etch-backports main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://www.backports.org/debian/ etch-backports main contrib non-free

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring 2007.07.31~etch1  GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                1:4.1.1-21        GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6             4.1.1-21          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information