Re: dbus-launch and gnome-session

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

On Ter, 2006-09-12 at 23:22 -0500, Scott J. Harmon wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I just wanted to save some people out there, who may be trying to build
> gnome, some of their hair...
> 
> In gnome 2.16 gnome-session now starts gnome-settings-daemon through
> dbus. So you probably know that you need dbus-launch running now in
> order to start gnome...no problem.  Following the man page of
> dbus-launch, we decided to run dbus-launch upon login on the system
> (i.e. in the profile).  This seemed to work fine for gnome 2.14.  But
> last night I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why
> gnome-settings-daemon was not launching in gnome 2.16.  I realized it
> was being started by dbus, but didn't see why it was failing.  After
> much hair pulling and such.  We realized that dbus-launch didn't know
> anything about the X session and was trying to start
> gnome-settings-daemon, which needs the X session environment variables
> set. Do-oh!  So, it was working fine with gdm (since it started X before
> logging the person in, but not with startx, since you logged in before
> you started X).
> 
> Just thought I'd share this if anyone else happened to run into it.

Been there myself.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-March/msg00102.html

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Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>
The universe is always one step beyond logic.