[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1006762: dbus: xfce4-session reports CRITICAL 'dbus-launch not found' xfdesktop does not start

[Sam Lander]

Package: dbus
Version: 1.14.0-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: sam.lander at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

I am in testing, and found after the recent v1.14 into testing release
that xfdesktop did not start.
I reported it to xfdesktop, but I think it might be a dbus package
problem
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/-/issues/183

In short, my whereis dbus-launch returns nothing and xfce4-session says:

/etc/xdg# xfce4-session --help
... xfce4-session-CRITICAL **: 22:53:24.005: dbus-launch not found, the desktop will not work properly!

The doc for dbus-X11 (which I've not consciously installed, nor avoided) says:
This package contains the dbus-launch utility, which automatically launches one D-Bus session bus per X11 display per user. If
the dbus-user-session package is also installed, it takes precedence over this package.

... but dbus-launch is missing.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.16.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages dbus depends on:
ii  dbus-bin                1.14.0-1
ii  dbus-daemon             1.14.0-1
ii  dbus-system-bus-common  1.14.0-1
ii  init-system-helpers     1.62
ii  libc6                   2.33-7
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.14.0-1
ii  libexpat1               2.4.4-1
ii  libsystemd0             250.3-2

dbus recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dbus suggests:
ii  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.14.0-1

Versions of packages dbus is related to:
pn  dbus-x11      <none>
ii  systemd       250.3-2
ii  systemd-sysv  250.3-2

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