mysterious error dialog when logging into gnome 2.16.1

[Jean-Yves Lefort]

On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:39:28 +0200
Hans Nieser <h.nieser at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hans Nieser wrote:
> > I've just updated to gnome 2.16.1 (marcuscom), but I get an error dialog
> > when I log into gnome. The dialog dissappears before I can read it so I
> > don't know what the problem is. But it's annoying nonetheless.
> > 
> > I've checked gdm's log, xorg's log and ~/.xsession-errors but I can't
> > figure out what is causing this error. Does anyone know where else to look?
> 
> By examining each startup program in my gnome session, I found out it is
> being caused by gnome-power-manager. Running it manually makes the same
> dialog popup (and dissappear again before I can read it) and leaves no
> output on the console. Running it with --verbose leaves this:
> 
> hans at aphax-laptop:~$ DISPLAY=":0.0" gnome-power-manager --verbose
> [gpm_debug_init] gpm-debug.c:158 (15:36:52):     Verbose debugging enabled
> *** WARNING ***
> [main] gpm-main.c:183 (15:36:52):        Failed to connect to socket
> /var/run/dbus/dbus.pipe: No such file or directory
> [gpm_syslog] gpm-debug.c:140 (15:36:52):         Saving to syslog:
> Critical error: This program cannot start until you start the dbus system
> service.
> It is <b>strongly recommended</b> you reboot your computer after starting
> this service.
> 
> As far as I know, dbus is up and running:
> 
> hans at aphax-laptop:~$ ps auxww | grep dbus
> hans  28949  0.0  0.2  1976  1560  ??  Is    3:28PM   0:00.02 dbus-daemon
> --fork --print-address 22 --print-pid 24 --session

That's the session daemon, but it wants the system daemon:

/usr/local/etc/rd.d/dbus.sh forcestart

(add dbus_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf to automatically start it at boot)

-- 
Jean-Yves Lefort

jylefort at FreeBSD.org
http://lefort.be.eu.org/
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