Unable to determine the address of the message bus

[Havoc Pennington]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 00:26 +1100, Rod Butcher wrote:
> If I've understood you correctly, this needs to be set up when the user 
> logs on to the linux box, so that the per-session messagebus is 
> available for both X and non-X apps, is this correct ?

Well, in principle but I don't know a reliable way to do it for
console-only sessions. In Fedora for example I think we start it only
for X sessions, in the X-specific scripts.

> Working on this premise I added a one-line file to /etc/profile.d/ 
> containing :-
> 
> eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
> 
> This gets executed whenever I log on to linux, and sets value for 
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS , and allows gnome-screensaver to run when I 
> eventually start X via gdm.
> Is this a correct technique, i.e. is the messagebus thus started valid 
> right across my user session as you mention above ?

It's correct more or less, but probably not very reliable. You might
make it more robust by adding:
 if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then 
   eval ...
 fi

Since nested login shells are not very hard to end up with.

But anyhow, should more or less work.

Havoc