[avahi] client-browse-services.c fails: "Unexpected DBUS error occured"

[Trent Lloyd]

Hi Nicholas,

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:18:43AM -0400, Nicholas Andrews wrote:
> avahi-0.6.10, configured with all defaults except no QT bindings, no
> mono, and no python.
> 
> dbus-0.61, default configuration
> 
> libdaemon-0.10, default configuration
> 
> On debian stable, I compiled the example with the following command:
> 
> gcc client-browse-services.c `pkg-config avahi-client --cflags --libs`
> 
> There were no warnings and no errors. When I run the executable, I get
> the following error: "Failed to create client: An unexpected DBUS
> error occured"
> 
> Both dbus-daemon and dbus-start appear to be running, however I don't
> see the avahi-daemon. If I try to start it again with "avahi-daemon"
> it fails with:
> 
> dbus_bus_get(): Failed to connect to socket
> /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
> WARNING: Failed to contact D-BUS daemon.

This means that we don't have your system bus socket right, if dbus is
running do a "ps aux|grep dbus" find the dbus with "--system" it may be
that you dont have a sytem bus running (there are two, --system and
--session) if not you can start one with (at a guess)
/usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system

If it is running, check /proc/<pid>/fd and look for the
system_bus_socket file and see if its location is different.

Let me know how that goes for you.

Cheers,
Trent

> Am I missing a configuration step?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> -Nick
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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.