I think I know why d-bus is failing to start. The error when it tries to is as follows:
"Failed to start message bus: Error in file /etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf, line 1, column 0: no element found" The first possibility came up when I searched /gnu/store for system-local.conf. There is only one instance of such a file, and it is empty. According to https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-daemon.1.html, the (xml) file *must* contain the following line at a minimum: <!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-Bus Bus Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd";> The error message makes a lot of sense with this in mind. Since I can't just edit the file to add the line, can you recommend a way to fix this? On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 7:43 AM Bryan Ferris <saffsn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Danny, > > Sorry for the delay in response. I saw no behavior change until I added > the (mount? #f) line. This fixed a number of services, but d-bus fails to > start. I encounter further issues including X Server failing to start and > the inability to log in (when I type in a valid username it immediately > fails 3 times and prints the standard message... I don't have password > hashes in my config, but IIRC last time I installed guix I was able to log > in without setting a password either imperatively or declaratively). Due to > the latter issue I was unable to test the program you posted, but it sounds > like Ludovic was able to describe what would happen if I had been able to? > I assume the non-d-bus errors are related to the lack of d-bus. > > I uploaded a new video of my startup at > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVdiCM1BKAmY-1y1XydI4ol7BCCkQ2Xk/view?usp=drivesdk > It's ~50s long, but seconds 20-45 are the system retrying d-bus a number of > times. > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:21 AM Danny Milosavljevic < > dan...@scratchpost.org> wrote: > >> Also, if you want, please try the following program on the booted guix >> system: >> >> #include <stdio.h> >> #include <locale.h> >> #include <iconv.h> >> #include <langinfo.h> >> >> static iconv_t iconv_init_codepage(int codepage) >> { >> iconv_t result; >> char codepage_name[16]; >> snprintf(codepage_name, sizeof(codepage_name), "CP%d", codepage); >> result = iconv_open(nl_langinfo(CODESET), codepage_name); >> if (result == (iconv_t) - 1) { >> printf("FOO\n"); >> perror(codepage_name); >> printf("BAR\n"); >> } >> return result; >> } >> >> int main() { >> setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); >> iconv_init_codepage(437); >> return 0; >> } >> >> You'd have to put the above text into a file called "a.c", then invoke >> >> guix package -i gcc-toolchain >> >> Then invoke >> >> gcc -o a a.c >> >> Then invoke >> >> ./a >> >> I suspect it will also fail with the same error message. >> >> After that, please invoke >> >> iconv -l |grep -i cp437 >> >> It will probably either return nothing or even fail with an error message. >> > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:21 AM Danny Milosavljevic < > dan...@scratchpost.org> wrote: > >> Also, if you want, please try the following program on the booted guix >> system: >> >> #include <stdio.h> >> #include <locale.h> >> #include <iconv.h> >> #include <langinfo.h> >> >> static iconv_t iconv_init_codepage(int codepage) >> { >> iconv_t result; >> char codepage_name[16]; >> snprintf(codepage_name, sizeof(codepage_name), "CP%d", codepage); >> result = iconv_open(nl_langinfo(CODESET), codepage_name); >> if (result == (iconv_t) - 1) { >> printf("FOO\n"); >> perror(codepage_name); >> printf("BAR\n"); >> } >> return result; >> } >> >> int main() { >> setlocale(LC_ALL, ""); >> iconv_init_codepage(437); >> return 0; >> } >> >> You'd have to put the above text into a file called "a.c", then invoke >> >> guix package -i gcc-toolchain >> >> Then invoke >> >> gcc -o a a.c >> >> Then invoke >> >> ./a >> >> I suspect it will also fail with the same error message. >> >> After that, please invoke >> >> iconv -l |grep -i cp437 >> >> It will probably either return nothing or even fail with an error message. >> >
