Bug#387549: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#387549: dbus: Session bus
does not accept connections or fails to start properly
Sjoerd Simons
sjoerd at spring.luon.net
Fri Sep 15 07:55:38 UTC 2006
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 12:39:30AM +0200, Andre Wendt wrote:
> I can neither use gnome-screensaver nor screem (nor yet another package
> whose name I forgot now) because of the message:
>
> couldn't connect to session bus: Unable to determine the address of
> the message bus (try 'man dbus-launch' and 'man dbus-daemon' for help)
>
> $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID are both set,
> however, $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is 'unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-SsLs0a*'
> while no file /tmp/dbus* exists.
It's an abstract socket, which means it doesn't use a file on the filesystem.
Is the process in $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID actually running ?
> Trying to invoke dbus manually using
>
> $ dbus-daemon --session --fork
>
> has the same result.
That doesn't help, you start a session bus but the environment variables won't
be set. If the process in $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID could you check if running
``dbus-deamon --session'' gives some usefull error message?
Sjoerd
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