Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] dbus bug

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan kaolin wh9 net>]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 08:13:37PM -0300, André Bianchi wrote:
> Hello, I had a problem with rhythmbox version 0.9.3.1 in gentoo.
> 
> I emerged it and when it starts, it looks for 
> /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket, which in my system is actually in
> /var/lib/dbus/system_bus_socket. A symlink solved the problem.

If you're going to use a non-default location for the dbus system bus
socket (which gentoo apparently does), you should pass
--with-system-socket=/var/lib/dbus/system_bus_socket to the dbus
./configure script, otherwise the dbus library won't know to look in the
alternate location.