Dbus wont start - Input/Output error

[farsheedj]

I am running into problem with starting avahi.I get following message

-bash-4.2# /etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon start
Start dbus first
but when i try to start dbus I get this message

-bash-4.2# /etc/rc.d/dbus start
:: Starting D-BUS system messagebus [BUSY] Failed to start message bus: Failed to open "/var/run/dbus.pid": Input/output error
Any ideas how to fix this.

Thanks

[pepedog]

bash-4.4#
????
Is Archlinux running?

[farsheedj]

I recently updated the system by pacman -Syu. I still shows bash 4.4. Do I need to do any manual installation/upgrade.
This is the kernel/archlinux installed.Is there a more updated/different version.

Operating system Archlinux
Webmin version 1.570
Time on system Wed Feb 8 09:26:47 2012
Kernel and CPU Linux 3.1.10-2-ARCH on armv5tel

-bash-4.2# pacman -Si linux
Repository : core
Name : linux
Version : 3.1.10-2
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Licenses : GPL2
Groups : base
Provides : kernel26 aufs_friendly
Depends On : coreutils linux-firmware module-init-tools>=3.16
mkinitcpio>=0.7
Optional Deps : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country
Conflicts With : kernel26
Replaces : kernel26
Download Size : 12908.85 KiB
Installed Size : 16724.00 KiB
Packager : Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
Architecture : arm
Build Date : Thu 02 Feb 2012 08:59:20 PM EST
MD5 Sum : 5d6ed3fd6632a6ee3eb9f41f062c8fd0
SHA256 Sum : None
Signatures : None
Description : The Linux Kernel and modules

[WarheadsSE]

I think you messed up your prompt line in your environment, that is why is is saying -bash-4.2#

[farsheedj]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'I') think you messed up your prompt line in your environment, that is why is is saying -bash-4.2#

[WarheadsSE]

to be honest, I don't know what you have done to put your system into the state it is in. There should be no such input/output error, nor should your prompt read as such. You may want to consider a full re-install.

[toocanad]

I had some issues in my install related to the location of the various items in the rc.d file. Not sure about dependencies. In my case, I needed to move items around to get things going. My understanding is that if one daemon fails, the ones that come after fail as well.

I was having issues with avahi until I moved DBUS before avahi. This could be a red herring, I am not a guru, just a guy who bangs around.

The daemons line in my rc.conf looks as below.

DAEMONS=(ntpd syslog-ng network netfs crond sshd dbus avahi-daemon samba webmin cupsd)