FS#2039 - dbus is useless

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jaroslaw Swierczynski (swiergot) - Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 12:53 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 13:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Although dbus is started at boot time, user processes can't communicate beacause per-login-user-session isn't started.
To solve this, the following script should exist in /etc/profile.d/:

if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi

This exports two environment variables that will inform applications how to find message bus.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 19:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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