Re: dbus 1.14 update causing problems with xfce4

On Sun, 1 May 2022 08:55:26 +0900
Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:

> On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 23:34:12 +0200
> Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 30/04/22 23:06, Tatsuki Makino wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > > 
> > > I ask because it is not mentioned anywhere, have you restarted the dbus-daemon --system process?
> > > 
> > 
> > I rebooted the whole system multiple times, also tried forcing 
> > reinstallation of xfce4-session and xfce4-settings.
> > 
> > Tomorrow I'll try to find some way to do further testing and to debug 
> > this, but I"m not sure how to get insight on the process.
> > 
> > My idea is that dbus-launch has somewhat changed behavior, but I'm just 
> > guessing here.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>
> 
> chinese/fcitx at least in conjunction with japanese/mozc and
> japanese/fcitx-mozc stops working, too. ;-(
> 
> Panel icon on Mate desktop doesn't appear, and input method panel no
> longer appears on pressing Kanji key, but fcitx and mozc_server
> processes are running. Maybe interfaces via dbus are malfunctioning or
> not working.
> 
> Rebooting the whole system didn't help.
> Rebuilding *fcitx* and *mozc* and reboot didn't help.
> Additional rebuilding of *dbus* and reboot also didn't help.
> 
> Updating ports tree to after git: f5a0f6f2041d (in my case, actually,
> git: 2786eb3dc3bf) to revert "devel/dbus update to 1.14.0" and
> rebuilding dbus fixed the issue.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately fixing this beyonds my hand though, I suspect
> 
>  "DBusServer (and hence the dbus-daemon) no longer accepts usernames
>    (login names) for the recommended EXTERNAL authentication mechanism,
>    only numeric user IDs or the empty string. See 1.13.0 release notes
>    for full details."
> 
> entry on document.
> 
> Also suspitious would be
> 
>  "It is now possible to disable traditional (non-systemd) service
>   activation at build-time (Autotools:
>   --disable-traditional-activation, CMake:
>   -DENABLE_TRADITIONAL_ACTIVATION=OFF). See 1.13.10 release notes for
>   details."
> 
> but would be some more.
> 
> Note that Mate desktop starts fine even if dbus is updated to 1.4.0.
> 
> -- 
> Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>

Filed Bug 263696 for chinese/fcitx [1].


[1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=263696

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Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>