[Bsd-sharp-list] Re: F-Spot Port Trouble: cannot find Dbus sessions bus.

[Tom McLaughlin]

On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 12:03 -0500, James Snyder wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I'm not 100% sure what the normal channels are for reporting trouble
> with a port, so I'm emailing you as the port maintainer.

The mailing list listed as the maintainer,
bsd-sharp-list at forge.novell.com which I've CCed, doesn't accept html
mail due to all the spam. :-/  I've added a bunch of rules since that
one so I've temporarily lifted it in the hopes the other rules will
catch the spam emails.  I'll revisit the html mail rule again next
weekend after seeing what the spam queue looks like after a week.

>   I've got an up-to-date version of FreeBSD stable, with ports current
> as of today, and I've been attempting to get F-Spot running.  I've got
> it installed, and all dependencies should be there, but whenever I run
> it, I encounter a fatal error: 
> 
> F-Spot cannot find the Dbus session bus. Make sure dbus is configured
> properly or start a new session for f-spot using "dbus-launch f-spot"
> withe the following error details:
> 
> An unhandled exception was thrown: F-Spot cannot find the Dbus session
> bus.  Make sure dbus is configured properly or start a new session for
> f-spot using "dbus-launch f-spot" 
> 
>   at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] 
> .NET Version: 2.0.50727.42
> 
> Assembly Version Information:
> 
> System.Data (2.0.0.0)
> Mono.Data.SqliteClient (2.0.0.0)
> gdk-sharp (2.10.0.0)
> gnome-vfs-sharp (2.16.0.0)
> NDesk.DBus.GLib (0.3.0.0)
> NDesk.DBus (1.0.0.0)
> System (2.0.0.0)
> Mono.Posix (2.0.0.0)
> atk-sharp (2.10.0.0)
> gtk-sharp (2.10.0.0 )
> glib-sharp (2.10.0.0)
> gnome-sharp (2.16.0.0)
> f-spot (0.3.5.0)
> Mono.GetOptions (2.0.0.0)
> mscorlib (2.0.0.0)
> 
> Platform Information: 
> 
> Distribution Information:
> 
> If I try the recommended dbus-launch f-spot I get precisely the same
> error.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Best.
> 

Is dbus running as a system startup service?  dbus_enable="YES" should
be set in rc.conf.  Usually when there's a dbus related f-spot issue
there's more spit out to the console.  I'm using this PR as a reference
for this issue:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=108843

tom

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