upgrade to devel/dbus breaks xfce4

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > After upgrading deval/dbus to dbus-1.10.12 xfce4 fails to start as a
> > non-root user due to being unable to open/write to /etc/machine-id. I
> > made a tempurary fix by touching /etc/machine-id and chmod'ing it to
> > 777.
>
> If the /etc/machine-id message you're getting looks like
>
>     D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read
>     machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or
>     directory
>
> it may be misleading as /etc/machine-id is a fallback if other files
> were not found before (see bug 213540, for example).
>
> Is dbus running when you try to launch XFCE?
>

That is the message I got... it was immediately after boot and dbus was not
running (it asked for a onestart when I attempted to manually start it).
My .xinitrc is as follows:

xfce4-session



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