<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR id=EC_stopSpelling> From: robert_rawlins@hotmail.com To: dbus@lists.freedesktop.org Subject: RE: Python DBus - Creating A Service Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:13:38 +0000 <META content="Microsoft SafeHTML" name=Generator> <STYLE> .ExternalClass .EC_hmmessage P {padding:0px;} .ExternalClass EC_body.hmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;} </STYLE> > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 15:47 +0000, Robert Rawlins wrote: > > Hello Guys, > > > > I hope this is the right place to ask my question, apologies if I > > should be on another list, please feel free to point me in the right > > direction if that is the case. I'm new to dbus, I've been using it for > > a little while consuming other peoples services and things like that. > > > > Today I've started working on my own service, however I'm struggling a > > little to get it working. I've been using the following example code > > to try and get a service running on my system > > http://paste.lisp.org/display/45824 however when I attempt to run this > > python script I get the following error: > > > > File "TestService.py", line 15, in ? > > myservice = MyDBUSService() > > File "TestService.py", line 7, in __init__ > > bus_name = dbus.service.BusName('org.frankhale.helloservice', > > bus=dbus.SessionBus()) > > File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/_dbus.py", line 217, in > > __new__ > > mainloop=mainloop) > > File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/_dbus.py", line 106, in > > __new__ > > bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop) > > File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/bus.py", line 125, in > > __new__ > > bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop) > > dbus.exceptions.DBusException: > > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute > > dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session > > > > Does anyone have any ideas as to why I'm getting this error message? > > > > Thanks guys, I appreciate any help you can offer. > > > > Rob > > > You don't have a bus running and the library can't find dbus-launch to > autostart one. > > -- > John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com> >   > Hi John,   > Thanks for getting back to me mate, I appreciate it. I could use a little more help though. How can I start a bus? or how can I get the library to find > the functions it needs to auto start one? > Sorry for the n00bish questions, this is all new ground for me. > Thanks John, > Rob   John, as a quick update, I've just installed a package on my system called dbus-x11 which appears to contrain dbus-launch, however I'm now recieving a slightly different error message:   dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: dbus-launch failed to autolaunch D-Bus session: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. Thanks,   Rob  <HR> Sounds like? How many syllables? <A href="http://www.searchcharades.com/" target=_blank>Guess and win prizes with Search Charades!</A> </BLOCKQUOTE> <hr />Sounds like? How many syllables? <a href='http://www.searchcharades.com' target='_new'>Guess and win prizes with Search Charades!</a></body> </html>