Dbus error on ARM

[Trilok Soni]

Hi Ajay,

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Ajay EP <Ajay.EP at lntinfotech.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am running DBus ver 1.0.2 crosscompiled for ARM Linux which I was able to
> do it successfully .
> However when I start  the System Bus it complains with error
>
> Could not get password database information for UID of current process: User
> "??
> ?" unknown or no memory to allocate password entry .
>
> We tried adding group and username to etc/group & /etc/passwd resp.
>
>
>
>
> sh-2.05b# ./dbus-daemon --system
> 903: Allocated slot 0 on allocator 0x5d0e0 total 1 slots allocated 1 used
> 903: listening on unix socket /opt/gnome/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
> abstract
> =0
> 903: Read 12 bytes from /dev/urandom
> 903: Initialized server on address
> unix:path=/opt/gnome/var/run/dbus/system_bus_
> socket,guid=5007f3584591d143eb100b00000053ed
> 903: Adding a read watch on fd 3 using newly-set add watch function
> 903: Allocated slot 0 on allocator 0x5d084 total 1 slots allocated 1 used
> 903: No cache for UID 0
> 903: User ??? unknown
> Could not get password database information for UID of current process: User
> "??
> ?" unknown or no memory to allocate password entry
> 903: Finalizing bus context 0x5e0b0
> 903: Removing all pre-existing watches
> 903: Setting watch fd 3 data to data = (nil) function = (nil) from data =
> (nil)
> function = (nil)
> 903: Freeing slot 0 on allocator 0x5d084 total 1 allocated 1 used
> 903: Freeing slot 0 on allocator 0x5d0e0 total 1 allocated 1 used
> Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID for username
> "messagebus"

As indicated by this message, you need to add user and group as
"messagebus". Check your desktop distribution /etc/passwd and
/etc/group files for reference.

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