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Jgke

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Registered: 2012-04-05

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[Solved] awesome: D-Bus session bus system failed

I'm trying to replace Xfwm4 with awesome, but awesome is complaining about D-Bus:

W: awesome: a_dbus_connect:598: D-Bus session bus system failed: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
E: awesome: main:435: another window manager is already running

D-Bus is listed in the daemon array at rc.conf.

Last edited by Jgke (2012-04-06 19:36:02)

wolfcore

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Registered: 2012-03-06

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Re: [Solved] awesome: D-Bus session bus system failed

Clearly, you already have another wm running while trying to start awesome.

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Jgke

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Registered: 2012-04-05

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Re: [Solved] awesome: D-Bus session bus system failed

The same message (without the WM error) appeared when I had uninstalled Xfwm4.

anonymous_user

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Re: [Solved] awesome: D-Bus session bus system failed

How are you starting awesome? Also do you have dbus in your daemons list?

Jgke

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Registered: 2012-04-05

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Re: [Solved] awesome: D-Bus session bus system failed

Manually for now, and yes, it is.

Jgke

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Re: [Solved] awesome: D-Bus session bus system failed

/var/log/boot had interesting stuff in it...

Fri Apr  6 13:01:07 2012: :: Starting D-BUS system messagebus    [BUSY] Unknown username "avahi" in message bus configuration file
Fri Apr  6 13:01:08 2012: Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID for username "dbus"
Fri Apr  6 13:01:08 2012:    [FAIL] 

After a quick google search, I found the solution for the avahi part. For the dbus (before I start trying on my own) is it

# groupadd dbus
# useradd --system -g dbus dbus

E: Yes, worked. Now onwards on the debugging. Awesome starts without warnings but doesn't show up in any way (like xfwm4 does by adding a bar on top of windows).

Last edited by Jgke (2012-04-06 11:14:34)

Jgke

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Registered: 2012-04-05

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Re: [Solved] awesome: D-Bus session bus system failed

Awesome WAS starting, but I got confused for it being so different compared to what I am used to. Marking thread as solved.