Hi, I found message/question in the archives that fully describes my problem.   But no one replied to him. I'm on centos 5 with dbus-glib-070.   In short, the example-service and example-client don't play well together....   Any thoughts? Thanks and keep up the good work - it's great stuff. Fred <pre>Of the two example program-pairs in the dbus-glib-0.74 tarball found here: <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusBindings">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusBindings</a> , only one seems to work. Specifically, the example-server/example-client pair appear broken. The example-server starts and waits fine, but crashes when the example-client contacts it. Here is the command line output from both programs: example-server: ====== Debian@ch-07:~/src/dbus-glib-0.74/dbus/examples$ ./example-service service running Hello from example-client.c! GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_value_copy: assertion `g_value_type_compatible (G_VALUE_TYPE (src_value), G_VALUE_TYPE (dest_value))' failed aborting... Aborted Debian@ch-07:~/src/dbus-glib-0.74/dbus/examples$ ====== example-client: ====== Debian@ch-07:~/src/dbus-glib-0.74/dbus/examples$ ./example-client Failed to complete GetTuple: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) Debian@ch-07:~/src/dbus-glib-0.74/dbus/examples$ ====== </pre>