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Date:      Wed, 30 Nov 2016 21:51:51 +0100
From:      Matthieu Volat <mazhe@alkumuna.eu>
To:        Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: upgrade to devel/dbus breaks xfce4
Message-ID:  <20161130215151.5b2fee04@freedom.alkumuna.eu>
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:32:49 -0500
Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>=20
> > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.=
com
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa <
> >> rakuco@freebsd.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > 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?
> >> >
> >>
> >> That is the message I got... it was immediately after boot and dbus was
> >> not
> >> running (it asked for a onestart when I attempted to manually start it=
).
> >> My .xinitrc is as follows:
> >>
> >> xfce4-session
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
> >>
> >
> > To ask a dumb question, do you have 'dbus_enable=3D"YES"' in /etc/rc.co=
nf?
> > It looks like the dbus daemon is not running and, when it tries to run =
from
> > xfce, it lacks the privs needed. Perhaps the protections were adjusted =
in
> > the new version of dbus.
> >
>=20
> I am using what ever the defaults are but I suspect since I had to use
> onestart it was not enabled (before the update this was not needed).
>=20

I had a very hard time starting xfce those days with a minimal xinitrc
(could not get the shutdown permissions to apply and such). I ended
copying /usr/local/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc which seems to take care of everyt=
hing.

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