2005/12/18, Bob Kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 20:34 +0200, Nikos Charonitakis wrote: > > hi > > I m trying unsuccesfully to run this script from GARNOME extras in > > order to use hal and dbus and not my system outdated versions. > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > GARNOME=$HOME/garnome > > Make sure that ^^^ this points to where ever you installed GARNOME. > > > ## Use GARNOME's dbus and hal > > > > if [ `grep "<user>messagebus</user>" $GARNOME/etc/dbus-1/system.conf` ]; > > then > > more $GARNOME/etc/dbus-1/system.conf | \ > > sed 's,<user>messagebus</user>,<user>dbus</user>,' > \ > > $GARNOME/etc/dbus-1/system.conf; > > fi > > > > su -c "pkill dbus; \ > > /sbin/service haldaemon stop >/dev/null 2>&1; \ > > pkill hald; \ > > rm -rf $GARNOME/var/run/messagebus.pid; \ > > $GARNOME/bin/dbus-daemon --system; \ > > $GARNOME/sbin/hald --retain-privileges" > > > > it fails when it runs $GARNOME/bin/dbus-daemon --system; > > with this message: > > > > "Failed to start message bus: Unknown element <user> at root of > > configuration file" > > > > i tried manually to figure this putting various users > > garnome/etc/dbus-1/system.conf such as > > dbus, messagebus, 81 but none off them was succesfull... > > > > what can i do? > > I just tried this script on FC4 and it works fine. yes it works now :) after some experiments, i find that GARNOME has an empty file at $GARNOME/etc/dbu-1/system.conf So i copied fedora's native /etc/dbus-1/system.conf and make some path changes and now ti works...
Nikos > > > Note: > > i realized that my system does not have any "messagebus" user it just > > has a "dbus" user with id 81 > > i may have to create this messagebus user, but with what attributes? > > Bob > > -- > Bob Kashani > http://www.gnome.org/projects/garnome > http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bobk/garnome > > -- > garnome-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list > -- garnome-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list
