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konos5

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Registered: 2011-03-16

Posts: 56

No D-BUS daemon running... [SOLVED]

Hi everyone,

I recently installed guake (drop-down terminal emulator) and placed an entry in

/home/konos/.config/autostart/guake.desktop 

so that it starts automatically once I login to Gnome.

However, since then I am experiencing the following problem with its transparency feature (given it is enabled):

The desktop is clearly shown through Guake but not any active windows on it

This happens only after a fresh boot. If I launch guake from gnome-terminal, the transparency feature works as it should.
I then switched to tty1 with ctrl+alt+f1 only to see this message printed on the console:

Cannot open default display "default display"
archBox login: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
  warning.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)

(guake.py:1109): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: 
Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/guake/guake.py", line 1348, in <module>
     if not test_gconf():
  File "/usr/lib/guake/common.py", line 52, in test_gconf
     return c.dir_exists('apps/guake')
glib.GError: No D-BUS daemon running

...which makes me suspect that the guake's transparency issue has something to due with the D-BUS daemon

Any clues?

Last edited by konos5 (2012-02-29 00:57:02)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,543

Re: No D-BUS daemon running... [SOLVED]

Is dbus in your list of daemons in /etc/rc.conf?

konos5

Member

Registered: 2011-03-16

Posts: 56

Re: No D-BUS daemon running... [SOLVED]

Yes.
Here is the full list of my daemons in their respective order:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus networkmanager samba netfs crond cupsd)

konos5

Member

Registered: 2011-03-16

Posts: 56

Re: No D-BUS daemon running... [SOLVED]

Once again problem solved (on its own)...
I had accidentally forgotten the following line within /etc/profile/:

guake &

All is good now