upgrade to devel/dbus breaks xfce4

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
>>
>
> To ask a dumb question, do you have 'dbus_enable="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf?
> It looks like the dbus daemon is not running and, when it tries to run from
> xfce, it lacks the privs needed. Perhaps the protections were adjusted in
> the new version of dbus.
>

I am using what ever the defaults are but I suspect since I had to use
onestart it was not enabled (before the update this was not needed).

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