Re: GConf+DBus in jhbuild

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 13:13 -0400, Ray Strode wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> >> > Apparently GConf has switcged to using D-Bus, which explains why I'm
> >> > getting errors from applications running in "jhbuild shell".
> >> >
> >> > Is there a simple way to make my jhbuild environment use the D-Bus and
> >> > associated service files from my jhbuild-built /opt/gnome prefix? I
> >> > imagine that it would be difficult given that old versions of D-Bus (and
> >> > GConf) are already running from the regular prefix.
> >> Does your dbus session.conf have
> >>
> >>  <standard_session_servicedirs />
> >
> > Yes, I have that in both
> >   /etc/dbus-1/session.conf
> > and
> >  /opt/gnome220/etc/dbus-1/session.conf
> > (actually a gnome2.23 build)
> >
> >> in it?  If so, then it should look in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/dbus-1/services.
> >> XDG_DATA_DIRS should already be set up to include /opt/gnome/share
> >
> > Yes, it seems to be correct in jhbuild:
> >
> > murrayc murrayc-desktop:~$ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
> > /usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share/gdm/
> >
> > murrayc murrayc-desktop:~$ jhbuild shell
> > murrayc murrayc-desktop:~$ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
> > /opt/gnome220/share:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share/gdm/
> 
> Just so I understand, you are
> 
> 1) logging in with a gnome 2.22 desktop

Yes. In Ubuntu Hardy.

> 2) typing jhbuild shell

Yes.

> 3) trying to run gnome 2.24 programs from the shell and getting errors
> 
> Is that correct? 

Yes.

> What error messages are you getting?


For instance, gedit says:

"
An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for
Text Editor. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.
"

Pressing the Details button gives me this repeated several times:

"
Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS
locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
for information. (Details -  1: Could not send message to gconf daemon:
The name org.gnome.GConf was not provided by any .service files)
"

I now have this on my laptop as well as my desktop PC so I really think
it must be a common problem. My .jhbuildrc (attached) is very standard,
I believe.

ps shows that the jhbuild gconfd-2 is running :

murrayc murrayc-x61:~$ ps -ef | grep "gconfd"
murrayc   5755     1  0 08:36 ?
00:00:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 4
murrayc   6962  6482  0 08:43 pts/0    00:00:00 grep gconfd

-- 
Murray Cumming
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# -*- mode: python -*-

# edit this file to match your settings and copy it to ~/.jhbuildrc

# if you have a cvs account, uncomment this line
#repos['gnome.org'] = 'svn+ssh://murrayc svn gnome org/svn'
repos['svn.gnome.org'] = 'svn+ssh://murrayc svn gnome org/svn/'
repos['svn.gnomemm'] = 'svn+ssh://murrayc svn gnome org/svn/gnomemm/'
repos['gstreamer.net'] = ':ext:murrayc cvs sourceforge net:/cvsroot/gstreamer'
repos['bakery.sf.net'] = ':ext:murrayc cvs sourceforge net:/cvsroot/bakery'
repos['libxmlplusplus.sf.net'] = ':ext:murrayc cvs sourceforge net:/cvsroot/libxmlplusplus'
repos['regexxer.sf.net'] = ':ext:murrayc cvs sourceforge net:/cvsroot/regexxer'
repos['dbus.freedesktop.org'] = ':ext:murrayc cvs freedesktop org:/cvs/dbus'
repos['cairo.freedesktop.org'] = ':ext:murrayc cvs freedesktop org:/cvs/cairo'
repos['svn.gna.org'] = 'svn+ssh://murrayc svn gna org/svn/'



# what module set should be used.  The default at the moment is 'gnome26',
# but it can be any of the files in the modulesets directory, or even
# the URL of a module set file on a web server.
moduleset = 'gnome-2.24'

# A list of the modules to build.  Defaults to the Gnome Desktop and
# developer platform.
modules = [ 'meta-gnome-desktop' ]

# what directory should the source be checked out to?
checkoutroot = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], 'checkouts', 'gnome224')

# the prefix to configure/install modules to (must have write access)
prefix = '/opt/gnome224'

# if you do not want to use system-installed libraries for your builds, comment
# out the lines below
addpath('PKG_CONFIG_PATH', os.path.join(os.sep, 'usr', 'lib', 'pkgconfig'))
addpath('PKG_CONFIG_PATH', os.path.join(os.sep, 'usr', 'share', 'pkgconfig'))

# extra arguments to pass to all autogen.sh scripts
# to speed up builds of gnome2, try '--disable-static --disable-gtk-doc'
#autogenargs=''

# On SMP systems you may use something like this to improve compilation time:
# be aware that not all modules compile correctly with make -j2
#make_args = '-j2'

# set CFLAGS:
os.environ['CFLAGS'] = '-g '

# a alternative install program to use.
# The included install-check program won't update timestamps if the
# header hasn't changed
os.environ['INSTALL'] = os.path.expanduser('~/bin/install-check')

#module_autogenargs['howl'] = autogenargs.replace('--disable-static', '')