DBus error

[Steven Sroka]

>On 21 November 2011 22:01, Steven Sroka <sroka.steven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 21 November 2011 17:39, Pavel Strashkin <pavel.strashkin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1. What the content of /usr/share/dbus-1/services/ and
>> /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/ do you have?
>>
>> 2. Do you see anything related to org.kde.auth.kreminder there?
>>
>> 3. Does "Exec" exist, executable and starts normal by hand?
>
> Did a quick search of Exec and it does not exists. (What every Exec is)
>
> BUT! I noticed no service file with kreminder in the title. I will
> email the KDE folk and found out why it was not placed there (because
> it should have been). I will update you when I have a response.

As with all fun bugs this one had a simple cause. I was running my
program as a user and it was trying instal the dbus service file into
a directory owned by root.

Thank you all for your help. Believe it or not, I could not have found
out what was going on if not for your help :)

>
>>
>> 2011/11/21 Steven Sroka <sroka.steven at gmail.com>:
>>>>>On 20 November 2011 15:29, Steven Sroka <sroka.steven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>On 19 November 2011 09:13, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Friday, 18 de November de 2011 21.43.40, Steven Sroka wrote:
>>>>>> I've send emails to KDE's mailing lists a few days ago, but I have not
>>>>>> gotten a response.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The error code from the abstraction layer is 'DBusError', so I know it
>>>>>> is a DBus generated error. My program is probably causing the error,
>>>>>> but I need to know why.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you know where the DBus logs are stored?
>>>>>
>>>>> There aren't any.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you tell us at least which D-Bus message was sent? It was probably a
>>>>> method call, but where to?
>>>>
>>>> I called a custom method I created that sits within my helper.
>>>>
>>>> The most I know about the DBus message is:
>>>>
>>>> DBus Backend error: could not contact the helper. Connection error:
>>>> Could not get owner of name 'org.kde.auth.kreminder': no such name.
>>>> Message error: Cannot launch daemon, file not found or permissions
>>>> invalid
>>>
>>> I can confirm that dbus-daemon and dbus-launch is running.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
>>>>>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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