[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems with dbus / Orbit

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 07/07/2013 16:41, Jon Tibble wrote:
> Do you have dbus-x11 installed?

Yes. Found the same error message now with
pfexec wireshark
so this seems to be a general problem.


>
> On 07/07/2013 15:36, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>> On 07/07/2013 12:37, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>>> Openindiana 157a8 hipster, fresh update from a7:
>>>
>>> I'm totally lost, after a premature Ctrl-C on a pfexec packagemanager,
>>> I cannot start it anymore in pfexec mode (local machine, no NFS):
>>>
>>>      ~: pfexec packagemanager
>>>      GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible
>>>      causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or
>>>      you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
>>>      http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1:
>>>      @@@@@@@@@@@
>>>      Failed to get connection to session: Unable to autolaunch when
>>> setuid)
>>>      @@@@@@@@@@@
>>>      ...
>>>      Segmentation fault
>>> ....
>>> I'm very near the point now where I'll go back to a7
>>> and reinstall hipster....
>>>
>>
>> Reinstalled hipster, and still it does not work, switched to
>> another user with role admin, and again this fails. So there's
>> not much room left where a lock file or other remnant artefakt
>> can hide...
>>
>> I'm now not sure at all if it ever worked on a8 hipster
>> (it does on a7), it more seems that this is a general
>> problem introduced by a security fix in libdbus recently:
>> <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60667>
>>
>> If it really does not work (can anybody confirm this ?),
>> this at least means that the gnome menu startup script for
>> the packagemanager must be changed.
>>
>