dbus_enable

[Garrett Cooper]

eoghan wrote:
> 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
Eoghan,
    That makes sense. Many things in Gnome require dbus AFAIK, which 
would probably introduce dbus and other dependencies that would need to 
be set in /etc/rc.conf.
    Feel free to just CC the list as I am subscribed to it and don't 
need additional email :).
-Garrett