On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:01, Maxime.7259 wrote:

>> It should not have been necessary to "sudo port install" more than once. If 
>> you tell us more about the dependency problems you encountered perhaps we 
>> can fix that.
> 
> It said something like "error could not fetch ..."
> it seemed it could not retrieve the sources from any of the servers, and the 
> installation stopped.
> so I used "sudo port install" again and it fetched it OK

Ah, ok, yes. Momentary fetch difficulties. Guess there's nothing to fix about 
that then.


> after your mail I checked what is in /Preferences/KDE  and there was a link 
> to "tmp-macbook-pro-de-maxime.local" but then it says the original file is 
> missing, dead link.

Ok, I guess you can delete that dead symlink then. Not sure if it causes any 
problems for it to stay there.


>> This whole dbus business baffles me, and I'm not sure if the above is normal 
>> or if it is the source of the problem you're having.
>> After launching /Applications/MacPorts/KDE4/Amarok.app in the Finder by 
>> double-clicking it, I'd double-click /Applications/Utilities/Console.app and 
>> look for error messages.
> 
> this is what I get:
> 
> 03/08/10 18:36:26 [0x0-0xa50a5].org.kde.amarok[2423] <unknown program 
> name>(2423)/ mac_initialize_dbus: warning: unable to initialize D-Bus 
> environment!
> 03/08/10 18:36:26 [0x0-0xa50a5].org.kde.amarok[2423] Dynamic session lookup 
> supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that 
> org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
> 03/08/10 18:36:26 [0x0-0xa50a5].org.kde.amarok[2423] <unknown program 
> name>(2423)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server: "Not 
> enough memory"
> 03/08/10 18:36:26 com.apple.launchd[126] ([0x0-0xa50a5].org.kde.amarok[2423]) 
> Exited with exit code: 255 
> 
> yes, it looks like dbus is part of the problem.

Yes, it looks like dbus-session is not loaded, and needs to be.


> (by the way, since I now have macport, is it possible to have Dolphin running 
> on Mac?)

$ port search dolphin
No match for dolphin found


I'm not familiar with "dolphin". But if this is software that works on a Mac, 
you can always file a port request ticket in the issue tracker and someone 
might eventually get around to adding it.


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