DBus connection with INITSYSTEM ON

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Question regarding the INITSYSTEM ON setting and DBus on a Raspberry Pi 3 device:

  • With INITSYSTEM OFF I can connect to DBus fine.
  • With INITSYSTEM ON I get the error below. To fix it, I have to turn INITSYSTEM off again and then powercycle the device.

Error: Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, t
he reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

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Have you exported the DBUS address? You can find an example of how to do this here

What command are you using to verify DBUS is working correctly?

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Hi Joe - I’m using:

DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/host/run/dbus/system_bus_socket dbus-send --system --print-reply --reply-timeout=2000 --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.timedate1 /org/freedesktop/timedate1  org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll string:"org.freedesktop.timedate1"

Which works fine with INITSYSTEM OFF…

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What version of resinOS and supervisor are you running?
How are you setting INITSYSTEM on and off?

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I’m on
Resin OS 2.0.3+rev1, supervisor version 4.2.2

I’ve tried setting INITSYSTEM both in the dockerfile and remotely via the resin dashboard and seen the same behaviour.

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OK thanks, I will try to reproduce and get back to you.

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Hi again,

I just tested this and it worked fine for me. I pushed our simple-server-python example, modifying the docker file slightly to install dbus.

I tested both ENV INITSYSTEM on and ENV INITSYSTEM off in the dockerfile and then both INITSYSTEM on and INITSYSTEM off in the dashboard.

I ran the command you posted from the dashboard terminal.

Could you try this and see if the problem persists?

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OK I’ll give it a go and get back to you.