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PostPosted: Sun Dec 26, 2010 11:04 am    Post subject: [Solved] DBus Issue - Starting GNOME Reply with quote

Morning all,

I have a strange dbus issue that I can't seem to get to the bottom of when I'm starting up a GNOME session through GDM for the first time.

It seems that the dbus daemon is 'hanging' on startup, where I cannot launch any dbus reliant apps such as Gnome Terminal and Nautilus. I need to stop dbus for Gnome Terminal to appear on the screen.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to debug this dbus issue?

Thanks in advance,

Steve
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking into this more I found the following errors in .xsession-errors. Anyone know how this could be fixed?

Code:
(gnome-settings-daemon:3878): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: g_object_notify: object class `GkbdStatus' has no property named `name'

(gnome-settings-daemon:3878): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking IsSupported() failed for remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildSignaled: Process /usr/libexec/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor received signal 6
Failed to play sound: File or data not found

(gnome-panel:3883): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking IsSupported() failed for remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildSignaled: Process /usr/libexec/gvfs-gdu-volume-monitor received signal 6

(gdu-notification-daemon:3908): libgdu-WARNING **: Couldn't get daemon properties
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Error constructing GduPool: (unspecified error)

This error suggests there's a problem with your udisks or D-Bus installation.
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(gdu-notification-daemon:3908): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gdu-notification-daemon:3908): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gdu-notification-daemon:3908): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gdu-notification-daemon:3908): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gdu-notification-daemon:3908): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gdu-notification-daemon:3908): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(gdu-notification-daemon:3908): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(gdu-notification-daemon:3908): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
** Message: Initializing gksu extension...
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libgdu:ERROR:gdu-pool.c:2459:gdu_pool_get_devices: assertion failed: (pool != NULL)

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 3:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Managed to work this one out. For the sake of completeness on this forum, this is what I did:

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This can be "fixed" by running chmod u+s /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
however I assume this should be done on emerge.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most likely, the real fix was something else did did in the process of figuring it out.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

VoidMage wrote:
Most likely, the real fix was something else did did in the process of figuring it out.


Possibly, did a lot of tinkering and maybe tweaking one thing might have led to another fix.
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PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2011 3:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I encountered this problem as well, including the ability to hack around it by changing permissions of /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper.

It took a while, but I eventually tracked down my actual problem. Somehow the main GID number for the messagebus user in /etc/passwd was not consistent with the messagebus GID number in /etc/group. Most likely it was messed up because I had copied parts of both files to maintain real user's IDs with other machines, which may have interacted poorly with scripts to add the system IDs. But oddly, I did that copying more than a year before this problem manifested itself after an update.

Fixing the GID in /etc/passwd fixed the problem without requiring hacked up permissions on /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mmogilvi wrote:

Fixing the GID in /etc/passwd fixed the problem without requiring hacked up permissions on /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper.


re-emerge dbus and reboot fixes the GID. I encountered this years ago, and now I see it is still not fixed. When building a new stable branch system it gets unknown GID 99 while messagebus GID in my case was 105.
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