Felix Frolow wrote:
> I execute casual fink selfupdate-all
> I fail to install dbus, I guess one of the gnome dependencies:
>
>
> Reading buildlock packages...
> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/ 
> dbus_1.2.6-1_darwin-i386.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package dbus.
> (Reading database ... 107852 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking dbus (from .../dbus_1.2.6-1_darwin-i386.deb) ...
> *** WARNING ***
>
> D-Bus starts a system and session bus on your system by default,
> or a lot of stuff would break.  If you don't want it to do that,
> touch the file '/sw/etc/dbus-1/disable-dbus'.  Be warned that many
> Gnome (and other) packages will fail without D-Bus.
>
> If you want to disable the system bus, you can run:
>    /sw/bin/daemonic disable dbus
>
> Setting up dbus (1.2.6-1) ...
> chown: messagebus: Invalid argument
> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing dbus (--install):
>   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   dbus
> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
> Failed: can't install package dbus-1.2.6-1
>
>
> Dr  Felix Frolow
> Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology
> Department of Molecular Microbiology
> and Biotechnology
> Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel
>
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>
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Try running

id messagebus

If that says that there is no such user, then you should be able to
install dbus after running "fink rebuild passwd".

-- 
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison


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