On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 02:35 -0500, Vasilis Liaskovitis wrote: > HI, > > I am trying to write some small patches/enhancements to totem. I I 've > checked out the totem source code from the project's git. > git clone git://git.gnome.org/totem > > I built and installed it in a local non-system-wide directory e.g. > /home/totem-install with the folllowing commands: > > ./autogen.sh > ./configure --prefix=/home/totem-install > make > make install > > When I try to run the newly built version I get the folowing d-bus > error messages: > > r...@madrugada:/home/totem-install# bin/totem
Why are you launching Totem as root? > (process:2141): Totem-WARNING **: Could not load desktop file > '/usr/local/share/applications/totem.desktop': No such file or > directory Did that file not get installed? > (totem:2141): Totem-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session > manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported > (totem:2141): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Unable to open a connection to > the session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the > remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security > policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network > connection was broken. > (totem:2141): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Unable to connect to the running > instance, aborting. > > This is on debian/squeeze amd64. > > Even when creating a symbolic link /usr/local/share/applications/ to > /usr/share/app-install/desktop (where my system-wide totem scripts > are)) I still get the rest of the error messages. > > Is there some procedure or d-bus updating that I need to setup in > order to run this unstable non-system totem? The easiest is actually not to install it, and launch it from within the src/ sub-directory of the sources. Don't run programs as root, and make sure you use a session with a dbus-daemon running as the user. Cheers _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
