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

[James Snyder]

Aha, that seems to have nailed it!  I'll also keep that bugs database in
mind when poking around for solutions in the future.

I'd googled around, but had not found anything that precisely addressed the
issue.

Thanks for the great work you guys are doing!

-jsnyder

On 5/27/07, Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>
> 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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>


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James Snyder
Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University
jbsnyder at fanplastic.org
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