dbus needs unloading and reloading the .plist items in order for applications to connect to it

[vlsd (Vlad)]

On Snow Leopard, I have this recurring problem where applications that want to connect to dbus will randomly give errors that dbus is not running, even though it is. For example, when I start Inkscape, I get

Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
Failed to get connection
** (inkscape:5585): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed

** (inkscape:5585): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed

** (inkscape:5585): CRITICAL **: dbus_g_connection_register_g_object: assertion `connection != NULL' failed

and similar output from gimp and other applications. However, when I try to load the .plist object, I get

# launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
org.freedesktop.dbus-session: Already loaded

The way around this is to first call launchctl and tell it to unload the item then reload it. After that Inkscape and gimp start with no errors for a couple of days, until the problem reoccurs.

[vlsd (Vlad)]

Cc Me!

[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.