Does DBus Lie?

Soh Kam Yung sohkamyung at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 02:09:01 PDT 2010


Hello,

That signal can be sent by any service on the system d-bus: in this
case, by a service with the sender id of ":1.11".

Try using a d-bus viewer to see which process owns that connection.

Regards,
Kam-Yung

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Arigead <captain.deadly at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>    I'm a bit confused by what DBus is telling me when I try to listen
> to the System bus. I'm trying to listen to gpsd which "posts" a location
> fix at regular intervals. If I look at the system bus with:
>
> dbus-monitor --system
>
> I can see the info which I'm looking for. I'm inside an office at
> present so the actual gps chipset has no fix so this data don't tell you
> much about where I am but the info is there for org.gpsd:
>
> signal sender=:1.11 -> dest=(null destination) serial=3849
> path=/org/gpsd; interface=org.gpsd; member=fix
>   double 1.17539e+09
>   int32 1
>   double nan
>   double 180
>   double 0
>   double nan
>   double -6.37813e+06
>   double nan
>   double 0
>   double nan
>   double 0
>   double nan
>   double 0
>   double nan
>   string "/dev/ttyUSB0"
> [...]
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