From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 14:46:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B9B106564A for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:46:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5443F8FC1D for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:46:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LQNIT-0003yU-8v; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:46:16 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.238]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1LQNIM-0001fO-AG; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:46:06 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost.men.bris.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n0NEk5jW085999; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:46:05 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n0NEk2kW085998; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:46:02 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:46:00 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Anton Shterenlikht Message-ID: <20090123144600.GA85954@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090123131925.GA85167@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090123131925.GA85167@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Spam-Score: -0.6 X-Spam-Level: / Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failed to connect to socket /var/tmp/dbus-9QmJ2ebH21: No such file or directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:46:17 -0000 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