#20505: dbus doesn't work ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: vinc17@… | Owner: mcalhoun@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: High | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 1.7.1 Keywords: | Port: dbus ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ It seems that dbus is completely broken. Applications that use it, such as gnucash and liferea, output an error: Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded! and they don't work. One problem is that /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus- system.plist refuses to work (without any error message!!!) if a file /opt/local/var/run/dbus/pid already exists. Since {{{ /opt/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork }}} wasn't running, I tried it from the command line and got: {{{ $ sudo /opt/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork Unknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file Failed to start message bus: The pid file "/opt/local/var/run/dbus/pid" exists, if the message bus is not running, remove this file }}} So, I did {{{ sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus- system.plist sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus- session.plist sudo rm /opt/local/var/run/dbus/pid sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus- system.plist sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus- session.plist }}} Now, everything seems to be OK: a ps auxww shows {{{ messageb 9449 0.0 0.0 27940 716 ?? Ss 1:15AM 0:00.01 /opt/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork root 9454 0.0 0.0 27940 708 ?? Ss 1:16AM 0:00.01 /opt/local/bin/dbus-daemon --nofork --session }}} and /opt/local/var/run/dbus contains {{{ -rw-r--r-- 1 root messagebus 5 2009-08-01 01:15:54 pid srwxrwxrwx 1 root messagebus 0 2009-08-01 01:15:54 system_bus_socket }}} but I still get the same error. If the bug due to the error about the unknown group "netdev"? -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20505> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS