Re: dbus problem

2005-10-25 Thread Dennis J Perkins
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 20:56 +1300, Simon Geard wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 21:11 -0600, Dennis J Perkins wrote: > > I've found that gdm doesn't call .xinitrc for some reason, so > > dbus-launch never runs. > > > > Ah, you're using GDM to start Gnome - I'd missed that. In that case, try > the a

Re: dbus problem

2005-10-25 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 21:11 -0600, Dennis J Perkins wrote: > I've found that gdm doesn't call .xinitrc for some reason, so > dbus-launch never runs. > Ah, you're using GDM to start Gnome - I'd missed that. In that case, try the attached patch, which modifies GDM's Xsession file to run dbus-launch

Re: dbus problem

2005-10-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/24/05, Dennis J Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've found that gdm doesn't call .xinitrc for some reason, so > dbus-launch never runs. This is true, gdm does not behave the same way as issuing startx from the console. But you can get it to do what you want. I have dbus running right

Re: dbus problem

2005-10-24 Thread Dennis J Perkins
I've found that gdm doesn't call .xinitrc for some reason, so dbus-launch never runs. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: dbus problem

2005-10-24 Thread dperkins
> On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 10:52 -0600, Dennis J Perkins wrote: >> I played around with dbus to try to figure out what is necessary. It >> looks like it is necessary to run /etc/rc.d/init.d/dbus before the eval >> command, or gnome-power-manager won't work, altho dbus-viewer didn't >> complain. >> >>

Re: dbus problem

2005-10-24 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 10:52 -0600, Dennis J Perkins wrote: > I played around with dbus to try to figure out what is necessary. It > looks like it is necessary to run /etc/rc.d/init.d/dbus before the eval > command, or gnome-power-manager won't work, altho dbus-viewer didn't > complain. > > Howeve

Re: dbus problem

2005-10-23 Thread Dennis J Perkins
> How are you actually running dbus-launch - with the suggested 'eval' > command, or just by running it directly from the commandline? If the > latter, it won't work, since the dbus-launch process can't change the > environment of it's parent process, only of itself and it's children. > > Simon.

Re: dbus problem

2005-10-23 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 21:35 -0600, Dennis J Perkins wrote: > I compiled Gnome power manager, but when I tried to run it, I got the > following error: > > ** (process:5344): WARNING **: Failed to open connection to > dbus > session bus: Unable to determine the address of the message bu

dbus problem

2005-10-22 Thread Dennis J Perkins
I compiled Gnome power manager, but when I tried to run it, I got the following error: ** (process:5344): WARNING **: Failed to open connection to dbus session bus: Unable to determine the address of the message bus This program cannot start until you start the dbussession daemon