Re: Launching Rygel on headless server

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Cefn Hoile <mail gnome org cefn com> wrote:
> Here's the full log of the failure when dbus-launch isn't available,
> which also finishes with a segmentation fault.
>
> mpd@gardner:/root$ rygel
> Rygel-Message: New plugin 'GstLaunch' available
>
> (rygel:2187): MediaExport-WARNING **: Failed to attach to D-Bus
> session bus: Command line `dbus-launch
> --autolaunch=3bc3212927ef79ca1c9e685300000b5d --binary-syntax
> --close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Autolaunch error:
> X11 initialization failed.\n
>
> (rygel:2187): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_bus_create_watch: assertion
> `GST_IS_BUS (bus)' failed
>
> (rygel:2187): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_source_set_callback: assertion
> `source != NULL' failed
> Segmentation fault
>
> On 27 May 2012 11:21, Cefn Hoile <mail gnome org cefn com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to launch Rygel to serve my MPD pulseaudio stream from a
>> Pogoplug to the rest of my home network, running Debian Wheezy.
>>
>> Rygel versioning reports...
>> Rygel 0.14.1
>>
>> This is a machine without XWindows. I was therefore disappointed to
>> find that Rygel was throwing errors trying to invoke dbus-launch,
>> which is now in the dbus-x11 package,

That  would be a packaging/distribution problem I believe since rygel
and pulseaudio only need dbus to talk to each other and neither rygel,
pulseaudio nor dbus really require X.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124