Notifications don't show up (notify-send notify-osd)

[Mehturt]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Mehturt <mehturt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Alban Crequy
> <alban.crequy at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 6 May 2014 18:07:35 +0200
>> Mehturt <mehturt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Em ter 06 maio 2014, às 17:42:36, Mehturt escreveu:
>>> >> ** (notify-osd:30409): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to
>>> >> accessibility bus: Failed to connect to
>>> >> socket /tmp/dbus-JOB9rCGFAt: Connection refused
>>> >>
>>> >> ** (notify-osd:30409): WARNING **: dbus_create_service_instance():
>>> >> Got error "Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-GWnKyuCbfH:
>>> >> Connection refused"
>>> >
>>> > Check if the dbus-daemons running the buses above are still running.
>>>
>> [...]
>>> These are my dbus processes:
>>> $ ps -ef|grep dbus
>>>
>>> message+  2237     1  0 máj05 ?       00:00:22 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon
>>> --system user    2909     1  0 14:00 ?
>>> 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --autolaunch
>>> 1256b075bc99dcab8bbcb024522a5607 --binary-syntax --close-stderr
>>> user    2910     1  0 14:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon
>>> --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
>>> user    2916  2912  0 14:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon
>>> --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address
>>> 3
>>
>> On Debian, the accessibility bus is started
>> by /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop so it runs within the
>> session bus environment.
>>
>> So I would get the pid of dbus-daemon used for the accessibility bus:
>> PID=2916
>> in your logs.
>>
>> Or any other process you know is running inside the session bus:
>> PID=`pidof gnome-shell`
>>
>> Then, get the bus address it uses:
>> cat /proc/$PID/environ|tr '\0' '\n'|grep DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
>
> So I updated the machine, rebooted and now I see notify-send seems to
> work properly, even though no DBUS* variable is set in my environment.
> Is that ok?
> From the session which seems to display notification (notify-send asdf
> - displays the box with asdf text) I did:
> cat /proc/$$/environ
> But there's no DBUS*
>

Just to followup on this.. it seems to work a few times but then it
does not work anymore (notifications are not displayed)