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#1 2009-04-22 23:33:56

scooby
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Registered: 2009-03-19
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[SOLVED]-xfce dbus problem?

I have a vanilla install on a Samsung netbook, and am trying to get xfce to work. I have followed the install guides to the letter twice, and now am stumped. Xorg appears to be working ok, using hal and input-evdev.

If I type startx at the prompt, the following message comes up:

           Unable to contact settings server
           Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session

I have edited ~/.xinitrc with exec ck-launch-session xfce4-session, but this hasn't solved the problem.
I have also edited Policykit.conf and added myself as a user.
I can't find any error messages in any logs.


What is really annoying is that I have been happily running arch for the last couple of months. I was also running gentoo to see which one I liked better. A few days ago  I was bored and decided to get rid of gentoo (compiling everything begins to drag after a while), so I did a bit of partition reorganising.

Now I don't have gentoo or arch, only xp:(

Last edited by scooby (2009-05-10 08:54:16)

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#2 2009-04-23 22:39:45

mohaagh.02
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Registered: 2009-03-20
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Re: [SOLVED]-xfce dbus problem?

yes i have the same error here .. please help  i jsut did a clean install of arch !!!!!

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#3 2009-04-23 22:56:04

mohaagh.02
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Registered: 2009-03-20
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Re: [SOLVED]-xfce dbus problem?

i have installed dbus and it works

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#4 2009-04-24 09:30:05

scooby
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Registered: 2009-03-19
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Re: [SOLVED]-xfce dbus problem?

That has fixed it for me as well , thanks.

How come there are two version of dbus :dbus-core is installed during arch installation, but this apparently doesn't work with xfce. For xfce you have to manually install dbus from the extra repo. Perhaps dbus from extra needs to be listed as a dependency of xfce so that it is pulled in during installation of xfce??

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#5 2009-08-23 03:30:37

metromini
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From: Jakarta, Indonesia
Registered: 2005-08-02
Posts: 39

Re: [SOLVED]-xfce dbus problem?

get it works after install pacman -S extra/dbus
thanks guys

Last edited by metromini (2009-08-23 04:10:22)

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