1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/packages/avahi/avahi_0.6.10.bb b/meta/packages/avahi/avahi_0.6.10.bb
index 2b12d91c8d..2a6eb24033 100644
--- a/meta/packages/avahi/avahi_0.6.10.bb
+++ b/meta/packages/avahi/avahi_0.6.10.bb
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ AUTHOR = "Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://avahi.org"
 MAINTAINER = "Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com>"
 LICENSE= "GPL"
+PR = "r1"
 
 DEPENDS = "expat libdaemon dbus"
 RRECOMMENDS = "libnss-mdns"
@@ -49,9 +50,16 @@ pkg_postinst_avahi-daemon () {
 
         grep avahi /etc/group || addgroup avahi
         grep avahi /etc/passwd || adduser --disabled-password --system --home /var/run/avahi-daemon --no-create-home avahi --ingroup avahi -g Avahi
-        /etc/init.d/dbus-1 force-reload
+
+        DBUSPID=`pidof dbus-daemon`
+
+        if [ "x$DBUSPID" != "x" ]; then
+                /etc/init.d/dbus-1 force-reload
+        fi
 }
 
+# dbus errors to /dev/null as at the time the postinst runs, dbus might not be setup.
+
 pkg_postrm_avahi-daemon () {
         deluser avahi || true
         delgroup avahi || true