Re: starting dbus

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Short answer: yes

Longer answer:
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When running GARNOME you want to use GARNOME's message bus. The system
message bus needs to be started before the haldaemon or avahi-daemon is
started. These can be started by root before the GARNOME desktop is
brought up. From my experience, these daemons can be started by root
*before* the GARNOME environment is established. The only caveat is you
must be careful to use full path names.

With a minor amount of scripting you can craft startup files that are
modeled after the startup files in /etc/init.d used to start system
processes. 

Note that is not really necessary to stop the distro's message bus
daemons and hal daemon as they listen on different sockets. 

-Joseph

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On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 18:10 -0600, J. Gardner Biggs wrote:

> 
> This is the script that starts garnome for me:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> GARNOME=/opt/gnome-2.14.0
> PATH=$GARNOME/bin:$GARNOME/sbin:$PATH
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$GARNOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> PYTHONPATH=$GARNOME/lib/python2.4/site-packages
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$GARNOME/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig
> XDG_DATA_DIRS=$GARNOME/share:/usr/share
> XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$GARNOME/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg
> GDK_USE_XFT=1
> 
> export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH PYTHONPATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH GDK_USE_XFT
> XDG_DATA_DIRS XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
> 
> dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session $GARNOME/bin/gnome-session
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Does it matter that the garnome environment variables are already set
> before dbus is launched?
> 
> Just wondering if I am doing it correctly on an unbuntu 5.10 setup.  Do
> I need to add the dbus-daemon --system command somewhere else?  I am
> concerned that an older version of the daemon is running before the one
> I built/installed to /opt has a change to start up.
> 
> TIA
> > ================================================================================

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