[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#690530: dbus: Unable to launch DBus services without X11 running

[Jason White]

Package: dbus
Version: 1.6.8-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
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   * What led up to the situation?
I ran, e.g., aplay from the console (no X11 running) with PulseAudio installed
and configured.
   * What was the outcome of this action?

Oct 15 18:49:11 jdc pulseaudio[9803]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Unable to contact
D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a
dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

A DBus daemon should have been launched and PulseAudio started within the
user's session, which was all working perfectly until recently.

Note that Alsa is configured to run PulseAudio, if the latter is installed, so
the resulting symptom in that case is no audio. Obviously, however, this is a
general DBus issue - PulseAudio is only an example of how it bites.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dbus depends on:
ii  adduser            3.113+nmu3
ii  libc6              2.13-35
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.6.8-1
ii  libexpat1          2.1.0-1
ii  libselinux1        2.1.9-5
ii  libsystemd-login0  44-4
ii  lsb-base           4.1+Debian7

dbus recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dbus suggests:
ii  dbus-x11  1.6.8-1

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