gaim broken by dbus update

ckristi · 2007-02-04 17:09:03

Gaim does not start after the recent dbus update.
It exits with the following error message:

process 5513: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Aborted

waluigi · 2007-02-04 17:25:29

Try to start with

dbus-launch gajim

ckristi · 2007-02-04 17:34:57

It works this way. Thanks.

waluigi · 2007-02-04 17:38:27

But problem still is not solved :]

ckristi · 2007-02-04 18:15:32

We'll just have to wait for the developers, but at least we're having a workaround.

qdlaty · 2007-02-04 19:49:21

It's just a matter of missing machine ID in /var/lib/dbus

simply run
dbus-uuidgen --ensure
and restart dbus (just in case...)

ckristi · 2007-02-04 19:58:10

Thanks a lot! That did the trick.
I think this should be added into the installation script.

Last edited by ckristi (2007-02-04 19:58:52)

McQueen · 2007-02-04 20:01:21

See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.

The answer was right in the original error message.

ckristi · 2007-02-04 20:18:35

Ok, I was ignorant. Mostly because I didn't pay attention. But isn't a software belonging to a distribution supposed to _work_ (please read "work" and not "look fancy") out of the box? It's not a program I compiled from sources. It's one I downloaded from the _official_ repository. I don't wanna become upset on the developers because I know time is always an issue. It's our duty to report anything we see not working out of the box. That's why the developers created this community and allowed us to speak freely.

JGC · 2007-02-04 21:40:05

I'm building a new dbus package that includes the command in the startup script, which is the same thing that happens in the upstream package. I did some testing from gnome, which didn't show these issues. With KDE however it breaks.

delphinen · 2007-02-05 04:48:32

After upgrading dbus, gnome-session wouldnt start because a file was missing, libdbus-1.so.2, it looks like the upgrade upgraded to libdbus-1.so.3 (which, at the same its a symlink to libdbus-1.so.3.2.0), so I made a symlink called libdbus-1.so.2 pointing to libdbus-1.so (which points to libdbus-1.so.3.2.0 too, as libdbus-1.so.3 does)
after that, gnome-session would start, but many programs like gaim and xchat sigfaulted, so I had to do a dbus-uuidgen --ensure and /etc/rc.d/dbus restart. Problem solved.

kth5 · 2007-02-05 11:24:16

or add this to /etc/rc.d/dbus for a more permanent solution for as long desktop files haven't been fixed:

dbus-uuidgen --ensure

Lone_Wolf · 2007-02-05 19:51:04

No problem here with gaim and dbus 1.0.2-2

skale · 2007-02-05 20:38:38

Worked with dbus 1.0.2-2 and XFCE terminal

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gaim broken by dbus update

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