Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:46:00 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failed to connect to socket /var/tmp/dbus-9QmJ2ebH21: No such file or directory Message-ID: <20090123144600.GA85954@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090123131925.GA85167@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090123131925.GA85167@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:19:25PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I run FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha, and I've XAUTHORITY set up: > > % echo $XAUTHORITY > /home/mexas/.Xauthority > > I've gconf2-2.24.0 and ORBit2-2.14.16 > > Whenever I try to start a browser, e.g. firefox2 or kazehakase I get this message: > > GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /var/tmp/dbus-9QmJ2ebH21: No such file or directory) > GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /var/tmp/dbus-9QmJ2ebH21: No such file or directory) > > Sometimes the browser eventually opens up, but sometimes it doesn't. > > In addition, the time /var/tmp/orbit-mexas is 1970: > > # ls -al /var/tmp/|grep orbit-mexas > drwx------ 2 mexas wheel 1024 1 Jan 1970 orbit-mexas > # > > And where is that random number comes from in /var/tmp/dbus-9QmJ2ebH21? > > I've > > % xauth -v list > Using authority file /home/mexas/.Xauthority > mech-anton240.men.bris.ac.uk:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 27cb8258eb7feb6291ba680547603a68 > mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 9f784d8ddca2a8f9deaefd12c809fc51 > > What's going on? Give me a clue please. forgot to add that when either (or both) browsers are running, there is no dbus-daemon process: % ps ax|grep dbus 85571 p0 I 0:00.01 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax 85630 p1 I+ 0:00.01 dbus-launch --autolaunch c147699dcd782c00b8cb56ec49707d8a --binary-syntax 85929 p2 R+ 0:00.01 grep dbus % Looking at the dbus-launch manual page my impression was that dbus-launch should start dbus-daemon and exit. What I get is the opposite: dbus-launch is never terminated and doesn't seem to launch dbus-daemon. I'm confused. Please help. My versions are dbus-1.2.4.4 and dbus-glib-0.78. many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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