Re: [Tracker] trackerd patch to alert the user that the dbus connection is unavailable

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 11/01/2007 alle 19.13 +0000, Saleem Abdulrasool ha
> scritto:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Attached is a patch that displays a dialog when the dbus session bus is
> > not available, or if trackerd is unable to connect to it.  I think that
> > this is useful, as otherwise, trackerd silently fails to start.
> >
> > In order to display the dialog, there is a dependency on GTK+, but it
> > does NOT require any GNOME specific libraries.
> >
> > As for the issue of running trackerd when no UI is available, it should
> > be a non-issue.  If there is no UI available, it will fall back to the
> > console only version.  It will however, still fail if no dbus session
> > bus is available.
> >
> > Suggestions to improve this are welcome.
>
> You could simply emit a dbus message to use libnotity stuff.
>
> Open a terminal window and launch `dbus-monitor`: then run (on a second
> terminal window/tab)
>
>         notify-send -i dialog-error "Tracker was unable to connect to
>         session bus" "This error usually means that the DBus service is
>         not running. Please ensure buzz buzz buzz"
>         
> the output on (first) terminal could help you to build a dbus message to
> have the same effect.
>
> Of course, it works only if session bus is working and the connection
> issue is trackerd-related...

if it wont work without the session bus then its not much use (as dbus 
session bus not running is likely to be the most commonest error)

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