#32945: dbus needs unloading and reloading the .plist items in order for applications to connect to it --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: vloodo@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 2.0.3 Keywords: | Port: dbus --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- On Snow Leopard, I have this recurring problem where applications that want to connect to dbus will randomly give errors that dbus is not running, even though it is. For example, when I start Inkscape, I get {{{ Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded! Failed to get connection ** (inkscape:5585): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed ** (inkscape:5585): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed ** (inkscape:5585): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_connection_register_g_object: assertion `connection != NULL' failed }}} and similar output from gimp and other applications. However, when I try to load the {{{.plist}}} object, I get {{{ # launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus- session.plist org.freedesktop.dbus-session: Already loaded }}} The way around this is to first call {{{launchctl}}} and tell it to unload the item then reload it. After that Inkscape and gimp start with no errors for a couple of days, until the problem reoccurs. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32945> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS