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jmak

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Registered: 2008-12-21

Posts: 453

[ERROR 16:59:46.472637] Unable to get org.ayatana.bamf matcher

Hello,

I've just installed plank and I get the following error:

[mak@myhost ~]$ plank
[WARN 16:59:46.147661] [Preferences:186] '/usr/share/plank/themes/Default/dock.theme' is read-only!
[ERROR 16:59:46.472637] Unable to get org.ayatana.bamf matcher: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.ayatana.bamf: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.ayatana.bamf exited with status 1
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
[mak@myhost ~]$ 

I've reinstalled plank and bamf but that didn't solve the problem.

I don't know what to make out of this error message.

Any suggestion?

etoyoc

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Registered: 2014-11-05

Posts: 3

Re: [ERROR 16:59:46.472637] Unable to get org.ayatana.bamf matcher

I faced to exact same problem with my XFCE desktop environment without using display manager. According to logs there was a problem with starting bamfdaemon. Output of (/var/log/messages.log)

Oct 19 19:11:00 notes dbus-daemon[649]: Activating service name='org.ayatana.bamf'
Oct 19 19:11:00 notes dbus-daemon[649]: Activated service 'org.ayatana.bamf' failed: Process org.ayatana.bamf
 exited with status 1
Oct 19 19:11:00 notes org.ayatana.bamf[649]: Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Oct 19 19:11:00 notes org.ayatana.bamf[649]: (bamfdaemon:1269): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

I noticed that I was missing a part that sources shell scripts from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/* in my ~/.xinitrc. So i added:

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
    for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?* ; do
        [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
    done
    unset f
fi

immidiatelly after "#!/bin/sh" line to my ~/.xinitrc file. Then after reboot (or exit from DE and startx again) bamfdaemon started properly with X and plank dock run fine.
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc

Last edited by etoyoc (2015-10-19 20:10:27)