DBus connections are broken under root user.

[andyjstormont@…]

I'm trying to port PackageKit to OSX and I've come across an annoying problem. When a program running as root attempts to open a connection to the system bus DBus prints out some gobbledegook about the session daemon (not what I want) and returns an 'not enough memory'. When I run the program as an unprivileged user there are no dbus errors but the program cannot function correctly since it was designed to run as root.

Example with PackageKit:

andy$ sudo /opt/local/libexec/packagekitd -vTI:21:26:25 FI:egg-dbus-monitor.c FN:egg_dbus_monitor_assign,136

• connecting new DBUS_BUS_SYSTEM monitor

Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded! TI:21:26:25 FI:egg-dbus-monitor.c FN:egg_dbus_monitor_assign,140

• Cannot connect to bus: Not enough memory

• (packagekitd:25722): CRITICAL : dbus_g_connection_get_connection: assertion `gconnection' failed

process 25722: arguments to dbus_bus_name_has_owner() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-bus.c line 1278. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace

Abort trap

So there is a problem with dbus when running under root user which may or may not be limited to the system bus. Please help :(

[andyjstormont@…]

Cc Me!

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

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[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

dbus has undergone numerous revisions since this ticket was opened (apologies for never acknowledging).
I have never encountered this problem.
Closing now with the hope that the problem has been solved in the interim.
We can reassess if there is still a problem.