wrong time stamp 1 JAN 1970 on /var/tmp/orbit-<user>

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:52 +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I use FBSD 6.4-stable alpha. When starting a browser (firefox2 or kazehakase) no window
> is open, instead:
> 
> GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session)
> 
> and wrong date on /var/tmp/orbit-mexas (my username)
> 
> % ls -al /var/tmp/
> total 28
> drwxrwxrwt   7 root   wheel  512 18 Feb 15:48 .
> drwxr-xr-x  25 root   wheel  512 18 Feb 14:43 ..
> srwxrwxrwx   1 mexas  wheel    0 18 Feb 15:47 dbus-KXVAJaE3A4
> srwxrwxrwx   1 mexas  wheel    0 18 Feb 15:47 dbus-l8TP5ypEB0
> srwxrwxrwx   1 mexas  wheel    0 18 Feb 15:47 dbus-nUZBGPeroY
> drwx------   2 root   wheel  512 18 Sep 12:50 gconfd-root
> drwx------   2 mexas  wheel  512  1 Jan  1970 orbit-mexas
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> drwx------   2 root   wheel  512 18 Sep 12:50 orbit-root
> drwxrwxrwt   5 mexas  wheel  512  5 Feb 21:23 texfonts
> drwxrwxrwt   2 root   wheel  512 18 Feb 15:48 vi.recover
> % 
> 
> I've in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> dbus_enable="YES"
> hald_enable="YES"
> 
> and I've many dbus-launch and dbus-daemon processes:
> 
> # ps ax|grep dbus
>   594  ??  Is     0:00.05 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system
> 50289  ??  Is     0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --print-address 9 --sessi
> 52477  ??  Is     0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --print-address 9 --sessi
> 52947  ??  Is     0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 7 --print-address 9 --sessi
> 50273  p1  I      0:00.05 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax
> 50285  p1  I      0:00.00 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax
> 52943  p1  I      0:00.06 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax
> 52946  p1  I      0:00.00 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax
> 53487  p2  R+     0:00.00 grep dbus
> # 
> 
> each time I try to launch a browser another couple of dbus processes
> are started, but never exit.

Make sure you're starting your X session with dbus-launch.  For example:

dbus-launch --exit-with-session fvwm

Joe

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