kde5 and DBus issue + input problems

[Grzegorz Junka]

On 26/05/2019 19:26, Jan Beich wrote:
> Grzegorz Junka <list1 at gjunka.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Trying kde5 on a fresh FreeBSD 12-RELEASE system. I pretty much
>> installed kde5 and xinit. Then edited .xinitrc to contain
>>
>> exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
>>
>> Initially startx was starting the X11 session but nothing was being
>> shown apart from a window with this note:
>>
>> Could not sync environment to dbus
> DBus requirement is documented in the Handbook.
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html#x11-wm-kde
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48513
>
>> I then run
>>
>> dbus-uuidgen --ensure
>>
>> and now the desktop starts fine. Is this a bug or expected? Note that
>> I am using my own compiled kde5 so some settings may not be the
>> default ones.
> It's not just KDE, see
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228001


Thanks Jan. Looks like the need to run

dbus-uuidgen --ensure

isn't documented in the KDE handbook. Interesting is that in another system with Lumina desktop I also have DBus enabled but never had problem with the machine-id file. I don't remember ever having to run this command manually.