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FS#5404 - f-spot 0.2.0 dies at launch

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Yi Qiang (yi) - Friday, 15 September 2006, 04:18 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

After upgrade f-spot to 0.2.0, it refuses to launch now with this error message:

yi@veritas:~/ > f-spot
DBus.DBusException: Unable to determine the address of the message bus (try 'man dbus-launch' and 'man dbus-daemon' for help)
at DBus.Bus.GetBus (BusType busType) [0x00000]
at DBus.Bus.GetSessionBus () [0x00000]
at FSpot.Core.get_Connection () [0x00000]
at FSpot.Core.get_Service () [0x00000]
at FSpot.Core.AssertOwnership () [0x00000]
at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]


Looks like dbus is not working correctly? I have verified that both dbus and hal services are started.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Sunday, 17 September 2006, 14:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 15 September 2006, 20:22 GMT
You need the dbus session bus. If you're using startx, enter this in your .xinitrc for example:
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session

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