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Scattenlaeufer

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Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 17

Problems by starting x and awesome

Hello,

for a few days, I'm now using arch with awesome as wm, but it's only possible and awesome by root, otherwise I get the following error:

W: awesome: a_dbus_init:387: D-Bus system bus connection failed: failed to connect to socket /temp/dbus-lgy9oSvBJa: Connection refused
process 2833: argument to dbus_bus_request_name() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-bus.c line 1061.

But I have no idea how to deal with it. After two days searching for a solution to start awesome as normal user I haven't got the slightest clue.

Is there anybody, who can tell me, what my problem is and how I can solve it?

Nezmer

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Registered: 2008-10-24

Posts: 559

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Re: Problems by starting x and awesome

Did you start the 'dbus' daemon ? (hal depends on dbus so If hal is running then dbus is running) .
How do you start awesome ? xinit ?

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Scattenlaeufer

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Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 17

Re: Problems by starting x and awesome

hal is running, so I think dbus runs too.
Yes, I start awesome by .xinitrc

Scattenlaeufer

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Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 17

Re: Problems by starting x and awesome

I solved the problem by adding the following lines to the .xinitrc:

if which dbus-launch >/dev/null && test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi

Now I only have to find out, how I can use the firefox account, I used as root, as normal user.