Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:42:02 -0500 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrade to devel/dbus breaks xfce4 Message-ID: <CAGBxaXmAq_5VZVWV4EDubpJu3ywZxv4uq6JA6Vs3QmbZ5GZOfQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86poldqcqp.fsf@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAGBxaX=L23skVEJ1WE4OcaXdA8LVDU7YFgMgGtXxspb5FnXwLQ@mail.gmail.com> <86poldqcqp.fsf@FreeBSD.org>
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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
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