On 11/4/06, Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Following a recent upgrade (sorry, I can't be more precise), I'm
getting the dbus error:
Unable to determine the address of the message bus
from a number of applications at start-up, including at least:
f-spot (which fails to start as a consequence)
rhythmbox
epiphany-browser
I'm not sure whether to regard this as a problem with dbus, or as a
problem with the individual packages, but I suppose the fact that it
affects at least three programs that interact with dbus suggests some
more general problem. There are bug-reports of this type against a
number of the packages, but at least one of those bug-reports was
closed when it was discovered that the reporter did not have:
use-session-dbus
in the file /etc/X11/Xsession.options
But I do have that option set (the file
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 381 2006-06-28 10:39 75dbus_dbus-launch is in
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/)
dbus-launch reports:
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS='unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-ZX6wCeW4AK,guid=4c424d457a1e5bf2fc4e9ca0e2381f00';
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=6718;
and if I then set the environment-variable DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS by
hand (using the value supplied by dbus-launch), all three applications
start without error. But it presumably shouldn't be necessary to set
the environment variable by hand?
I'd be grateful for any help, and I'd be glad to do what I can to help
resolve the issue,
Jim
Versions: dbus: 0.94-1
f-spot: 0.2.1-1.1
epiphany: 2.14.3-3
rhythmmbox: 0.9.6-1
I have something like this in my ~/.bash_profile
(because I start X manually, and I want dbus on before X starts ):
if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then
## if not found, launch a new one
eval $(dbus-launch --sh-syntax)
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID
fi
My /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus_dbus-launch does not have those
"export" lines, maybe they are needed.
I messed with this problem for quite a while before getting it right,
and now I am not even sure I remeber what it was that I changed :-(
Anyway, I hope this helps at least a little.
Cheers,
Kelly
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