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Z32O

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From: BerlinBerlin

Registered: 2017-05-24

Posts: 8

Problem starting bumblebeed.service

Hi folks,

I have a problem with the bumblebeed.service starting. I'm trying it on my laptop with an integrated graphic Intel 5500, and a Nvidia Geforce 940M, following this ArchWiki page under Installing Bumblebee with Intel/NVIDIA, I downloaded all requested packs, enabled MultiLib, added the user, and also enabled the service with

systemctl --now enable bumblebeed.service

After all, and a reboot, I checked if the service was enabled with

systemctl list-unit-files

#Output

bumblebeed.service                                                        enabled  

Then I have installed mesa-demos, but the output for:

$ optirun glxgears -info

and even for

$ optirun glxspheres64

is:

[ 1692.314368] [ERROR]The Bumblebee daemon has not been started yet or the socket path /var/run/bumblebee.socket was incorrect.
[ 1692.314420] [ERROR]Could not connect to bumblebee daemon - is it running?

I tried to figure out something from the net, but nothing for this scenario.

Last edited by Z32O (2017-06-20 23:37:47)

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buntolo

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Registered: 2011-10-11

Posts: 202

Re: Problem starting bumblebeed.service

Check if your user is in the group bumblebee:

groups $your_username

Check if bumblebee is running using 'systemctl status bumblebeed', in my case it shows:

% systemctl status bumblebeed
● bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enabled; vendor p
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2017-06-21 09:34:36 EEST; 45min ago
 Main PID: 646 (bumblebeed)
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/bumblebeed.service
           └─646 /usr/bin/bumblebeed

giu 21 09:34:36 trasportabile systemd[1]: Started Bumblebee C Daemon.
giu 21 09:34:36 trasportabile bumblebeed[646]: [    4.201328] [INFO]/usr/bin/bum

If it's not running, try to start it with

systemctl start bumblebeed

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,723

Re: Problem starting bumblebeed.service

Also optirun has a tendency to be hit and miss, does primusrun work correctly?