Opened 12 years ago

Closed 4 years ago

#35554 closed defect (worksforme)

Port gimp fails starting

Reported by: me@… Owned by: dbevans (David B. Evans)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 2.1.2
Keywords: Cc: anddam (Andrea D'Amore), potmj (Michael Pot)
Port: gimp2

Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)) 

Last login: Mon Aug  6 15:53:40 on ttys000
karsten-harazims-macbook-pro:~ karstenharazim$ sudo port install gimp
--->  Computing dependencies for gimp
--->  Cleaning gimp
--->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0%
--->  No broken files found.
karsten-harazims-macbook-pro:~ karstenharazim$ gimp
Befehlszeile »dbus-launch --autolaunch=30cc480fafec8cb4791db1e9501e3c18 --binary-syntax --close-stderr« brach mit von Null verschiedenem Beenden-Status 1 ab: Autolaunch requested, but X11 support not compiled in.\nCannot continue.\n
Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
Not enough memory

Change History (7)

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: devans@… added
Description: modified (diff)

And is dbus-session actually loaded? Have you followed these steps: 

$ port notes dbus
dbus has the following notes:
  ############################################################################
  # Startup items have been generated that will aid in
  # starting dbus with launchd. They are disabled
  # by default. Execute the following command to start them,
  # and to cause them to launch at startup:
  #
  # sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
  # launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
  ############################################################################

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by anddam (Andrea D'Amore)

Cc: and.damore@… added; devans@… removed
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to devans@…
Summary: gimp fails → Port gimp fails starting

comment:3 Changed 12 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Port: gimp2 added; gimp removed

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by potmj (Michael Pot)

Cc: fmw@… added

Cc Me!

comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)

I can confirm that starting the system dbus daemon, as well as the user dbus agent, solves these issues.

Using the two launchctl-related commands is an easy, one-time step: 

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist

Perhaps these should also be called out in the notes for the GIMP port, to help new users avoid the issue?

comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)

But apart from the suggestion related to calling this out in the GIMP port notes, this ticket can be closed.

comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by mascguy (Christopher Nielsen)

Resolution: → worksforme
Status: new → closed

Per my earlier comment:5, this is simply a matter of starting the dbus daemons. Closing.

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