FS#5838 - thunar-svn dbus related problem

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Rob Page (robrob) - Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 20:04 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 18 November 2006, 13:38 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Unstable
Status Closed
Assigned To Woody Gilk (Shadowhand)
Architecture not specified
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

In xfce4-svn, with thunar-svn closed, open settings manager and then try to start the file manager option.

Pops up a dialog saying 'Failed to open the file manager preferences. Either the Xfce File Manager was not build with support for D-BUS, or the D-BUS service was not installed properly.'

However, this works perfectly if thunar is already running.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Wednesday, 07 February 2007, 22:17 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Woody Gilk (Shadowhand) - Saturday, 18 November 2006, 19:01 GMT
Please post more details. Is dbus already running when you start Xfce? (is dbus in your DAEMONS in rc.conf?) How do you start xfce?

I couldn't reproduce this, but I'm very sure that I have dbus running at all times.
Comment by Rob Page (robrob) - Saturday, 18 November 2006, 19:20 GMT
From rc.conf:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !hotplug @network @netfs @crond @mpd @alsa @ntpdate @sshd @dbus)

and:

[rob@whisper ~]$ ps ax | grep dbus
2133 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
2186 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
2187 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 8 --print-add
2373 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep dbus
[rob@whisper ~]$

I start xfce from wdm, which runs
exec /opt/xfce4/bin/xfce4-session >>$HOME/.xwm.msgs 2>&1

I'll give it a try with the startxfce4 from a normal terminal.
Comment by Rob Page (robrob) - Saturday, 18 November 2006, 19:29 GMT
Same result starting xfce4 using startxfce4 from proper console.
Comment by Woody Gilk (Shadowhand) - Saturday, 18 November 2006, 19:57 GMT
Try using @hal instead of @dbus, and see if anything changes.
Comment by Rob Page (robrob) - Saturday, 18 November 2006, 20:43 GMT
No change i'm afraid, I put @hal in instead of @dbus, and rebooted, and it's still the same.
Comment by Woody Gilk (Shadowhand) - Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 06:26 GMT
Thunar has been upgraded, could you try again now please? (I still can't reproduce this.)
Comment by Woody Gilk (Shadowhand) - Thursday, 23 November 2006, 02:18 GMT
Ah, I found your issue. You need to have xfce4-session-svn installed, and you need to start xfce with "startxfce4" to make sure the proper dbus stuff gets attached. Please make sure you have this installed, try again, report back.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 23 November 2006, 09:10 GMT
a side note: startxfce4 will set dpi to 96 independently of your xorg.conf, so keep this in mind.
Comment by Rob Page (robrob) - Thursday, 23 November 2006, 19:41 GMT
Woody, have upgraded to thunar-svn-23922-2, and am still having the issue. Even when I startxfce from runlevel 3 (no X), using the startxfce4 command. I also have xfce4-session-svn-23894-1 installed, so I don't think it's that. :S
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Monday, 08 January 2007, 11:40 GMT
i can confirm that too. it didnt always happen afaik. one day it just started happening. although im unsure the problem dissapeared if thunar was running. and i was starting xfce with startxfce4
Comment by Rob Page (robrob) - Wednesday, 07 February 2007, 22:14 GMT
This one seems to have been fixed.. Could have been an update to thunar or something. Thanks.

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