ailed to open connection to system message bus

Rob Taylor robtaylor at floopily.org
Tue Sep 26 11:12:48 PDT 2006


This is something that still needs fixing (and it will be fixed for the
next release ;) ). For now you need to make sure the dbus session daemon
is running before building dbus-glib.

Thanks,
Rob Taylor

Hertzel Armengol wrote:
> Maybe you be hear a lot about this error, but reading the past emails
> from this list I was not able to solve it.
> 
> here is part of my make
> 
> ke[2]: Entering directory `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus'
> make  all-recursive
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus'
> Making all in .
> make[4]: Entering directory `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus'
> make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus'
> Making all in examples
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus/examples'
> make  all-recursive
> make[5]: Entering directory
> `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus/examples'
> Making all in .
> make[6]: Entering directory
> `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus/examples'
> make[6]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> make[6]: Leaving directory
> `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus/examples'
> Making all in statemachine
> make[6]: Entering directory
> `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus/examples/statemachine'
> make  all-am
> make[7]: Entering directory
> `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus/examples/statemachine'
> make[7]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
> make[7]: Leaving directory
> `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus/examples/statemachine'
> make[6]: Leaving directory
> `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus/examples/statemachine'
> make[5]: Leaving directory
> `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus/examples'
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus/examples'
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/dbus'
> Making all in tools
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/tools'
> DBUS_TOP_BUILDDIR=.. dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal
> --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect >
> dbus-bus-introspect.xml.tmp && mv dbus-bus-introspect.xml.tmp
> dbus-bus-introspect.xml
> Failed to open connection to system message bus: Failed to connect to
> socket /usr/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [dbus-bus-introspect.xml] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71/tools'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hertzel/Desktop/gtk/dbus-glib-0.71'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> My configure for dbus-glib was this: ./configure --prefix=/usr
> also After the first failed intent I applied this patch w/o luck (still
> the same message) dbus-glib-introspect-fix-thoenig-01.bin
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> This was my config for the dbus: ./configure --prefix=/usr
> --disable-xml-docs --disable-doxygen-docs
> Dbus was compiled w/p problems also my version of dbus is:
> 
> # pkg-config --list-all | grep dbus
> dbus-1                           dbus - Free desktop message bus
> 
> # pkg-config --modversion dbus-1
> 0.93
> 
> and to get that I was forced to set :
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig
> 
> 
> What Im doing wrong? I need dbus-glib to be able to compile xfce RC1
> (now my desktop is broken :( )
> 
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