Opened 15 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#22272 closed defect (worksforme)

dbus default of --without-x cause errors like "GConf error Failed to contact configuration server"

Reported by: fernasser@… Owned by: MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.8.1
Keywords: GConf Cc:
Port: dbus

Description (last modified by mf2k (Frank Schima))

This affects several applications, like file-roller (on Snow Leopard).

My version of dbus is: @1.2.16, Revision 1 (devel)

It has also been reported in the past and people have been rebuilding it with x but it is hard for the less savvy.

Here is a good reference to a similar problem and a proposed fix:

ticket:16755

May I suggest you change the default?

I am not sure if one could get all applications affected to specify a variant (with-x) instead. I am not sure why the default is without X).

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Description: modified (diff)
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to mcalhoun@…

comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

Can't reproduce with current versions.

comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by drkp (Dan Ports)

Not sure if that's the case for this (old) bug report, but when I see similar things now what's usually going on is that something couldn't find dbus with launchd, then tries to fall back on dbus's X support and gives an error because we don't build that. The solution is to make dbus/launchd work, not to rebuild it with X support.

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