On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 13:24 +0000, Cian Masterson wrote: > Apologies for the delay in replying to this but I had parked it in the > short term. > > I have upgraded the device to Ubuntu 9.10 so I'd have the latest > version of modemmanager and since the device is running headless I > installed the JeOS variant to save disk space and processor load. > Unfortunatey I'm now seeing strange things with Dbus (i.e. it looks > like it doesn't exist) that makes me think it was a stupid choice to > make if I want modemmanager. Given that Dbus stands for Desktop bus > perhaps I was a trifle naive to assume it would be in JeOS. > > Anyway the issue is that if I call 'modem-manager --debug' as root it > appears to start ok, but qdbus doesn't start at all. If dbus is > missing then surely modemmanager wouldn't start.....? Or would it? I > apt-get installed dbus but it hasn't altered much. > > r...@feegle:~# modem-manager --debug > ** Message: Loaded plugin Nokia > ** Message: Loaded plugin Generic > ** Message: Loaded plugin Option > ** Message: Loaded plugin ZTE > ** Message: Loaded plugin Sierra > ** Message: Loaded plugin Huawei > ** Message: Loaded plugin Gobi > ** Message: Loaded plugin Novatel > ** Message: Loaded plugin MotoC > ** Message: Loaded plugin Ericsson MBM > ** Message: Loaded plugin Option High-Speed > > r...@feegle:~# qdbus > Could not connect to D-Bus server: > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /bin/dbus-launch > terminated abnormally without any error message > r...@feegle:~#
So the dbus-daemon seems to be working OK, but apparently there are issues with service activation on your install that need to be figured out. For example, why dbus-launch is exiting. That's more of a core D-Bus issue though. Dan > > Am I missing something or do I need to go back and start again with > "proper" ubuntu despite the fact that I plan to run headless? > > Slan, > Cian > > > 2009/10/23 Dan Williams <[email protected]> > On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 13:22 +0100, Cian Masterson wrote: > > > I am new to dbus so it is more than likely I'm missing > something > > obvious! > > > Probably not, it should work automatically when ModemManager > is running. > Can you ensure that ModemManager is actually running when you > try to > look for it with qdbus? > > If not, try running (as root): > > modem-manager --debug > > and see what it prints out. > > Dan > > > What I am trying to do is configure a headless system > running Ubuntu > > 8.10 to connect to the internet using a 3G dongle. Modem > manager was > > recommended to me due to support for the various quirks that > seem > > inherent in these 3G dongles. Unfortunately upgrading the > system in > > question to 9.10 is currently out of the question, and it is > running > > headless so I can't use network manager. I understood that > I could > > configure it using DBus so if anyone has any suggestions I'm > all ears. > > Thanks! > > > > Slan, > > Cian > > > _______________________________________________ > > NetworkManager-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
