dbus_bus_get crash

[Rick Ju]

Thank you.

Yes, it is that warning, no machine-id found. I was running gaim 
remotely. For normal X session, it works fine.

For ssh/rlogin session, who is supposed to calling dbus-uuidgen or 
dbus-launch? application, user login script?

-rick


Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Rick Ju wrote:
>> If there is no dbus session started yet, what appilcation is supposed 
>> to do? running a dbus-launch manually?
>
> The application should do nothing, libdbus will do what is 
> appropriate. In this backtrace libdbus is attempting to start a daemon 
> using the autolaunch feature.
>
> If you look at the warning it prints, it probably says exactly what is 
> wrong. Something like "D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up, 
> no machine uuid, read the dbus-uuidgen man page." Whoever built your 
> OS or installed dbus on it should have taken care of this.
>
> If you get a different warning then let us know.
>
> It is a problem with the local installation if the uuid is not set up.
>
> It's probably also some issue with your local install or configuration 
> if the daemon is not already running, though right now for a remote 
> ssh session or su session it's hard to avoid this issue. If you're 
> using a regular X session though without ssh or su, you really need to 
> start dbus properly when the X session is created, rather than relying 
> on autolaunch.
>
> Havoc
>
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