Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:11:10 +0100 From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrade to devel/dbus breaks xfce4 Message-ID: <86poldqcqp.fsf@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaX=L23skVEJ1WE4OcaXdA8LVDU7YFgMgGtXxspb5FnXwLQ@mail.gmail.com> (Aryeh Friedman's message of "Tue, 29 Nov 2016 18:00:40 -0500") References: <CAGBxaX=L23skVEJ1WE4OcaXdA8LVDU7YFgMgGtXxspb5FnXwLQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> writes:
> After upgrading deval/dbus to dbus-1.10.12 xfce4 fails to start as a
> non-root user due to being unable to open/write to /etc/machine-id. I
> made a tempurary fix by touching /etc/machine-id and chmod'ing it to
> 777.
If the /etc/machine-id message you're getting looks like
D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read
machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or
directory
it may be misleading as /etc/machine-id is a fallback if other files
were not found before (see bug 213540, for example).
Is dbus running when you try to launch XFCE?
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