dbus_enable

[eoghan]

On 12 Dec 2006, at 21:34, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> eoghan wrote:
>> On 12 Dec 2006, at 20:57, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>
>>> eoghan wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>> Im seeing some dbus_enable warnings when booting... saying its  
>>>> not set properly in rc.conf
>>>> I dont see these warnings in dmesg though. I assume its coming  
>>>> from my option:
>>>> gnome_enable="YES"
>>>>
>>>> here is the full contents of my /etc/rc.conf
>>>>
>>>> # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Wed Jul 19 20:56:08 2006
>>>> # Created: Wed Jul 19 20:56:08 2006
>>>> # Enable network daemons for user convenience.
>>>> # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/ 
>>>> rc.conf.
>>>> # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/ 
>>>> rc.conf.
>>>> hostname="nathaniel"
>>>> ifconfig_rl0="DHCP"
>>>> ipv6_enable="YES"
>>>> keymap="us.iso"
>>>> moused_enable="YES"
>>>> sshd_enable="YES"
>>>> usbd_enable="YES"
>>>> mysql_enable="YES"
>>>> webmin_enable="YES"
>>>> gdm_enable="YES"
>>>> ntpd_enable="YES"
>>>> gnome_enable="YES"
>>>>
>>>> Should I have gdm_enable and gnome_enable, or one or the  
>>>> other... could that be causing the dbus_enable problem?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Eoghan
>>> Could you provide the errors you receive in a reply email please?
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Garrett
>>
>> Hi Garrett
>> They appear at the very end of booting, just before I get the  
>> gnome login...
>> I got this from the system log:
>> Dec 12 19:44:03 nathaniel root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $dbus_enable is  
>> not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
>> Dec 12 19:44:03 nathaniel root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $dbus_enable is  
>> not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
>> Dec 12 19:44:03 nathaniel root: /etc/rc: WARNING: $polkitd_enable  
>> is not set properly - see rc.conf(5).
>> Thanks
>> Eoghan
> Eoghan,
>    Interesting. I thought there was a default for dbus_enable in / 
> etc/defaults/rc.conf. Try putting in dbus_enable=yes in /etc/ 
> rc.conf; it's useful for automatically detecting hardware in gnome  
> and interprocess communication in many different programs. Not sure  
> what you want to do about polkitd_enable though.. It looks like you  
> might need to enable that for dbus (based on this mailing-list  
> thread and the references to dbus in the C source code): <http:// 
> lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal-commit/2006-April/002376.html>.
> -Garrett

Hi Garrett
Thanks, will try that. I believe that the gnome_enable starts all  
these processes, though I could be wrong... and I didnt get these  
messages till I added gnome_enable.
Eoghan