On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa <[email protected]> wrote:
> Aryeh Friedman <[email protected]> writes: > > > After upgrading deval/dbus to dbus-1.10.12 xfce4 fails to start as a > > non-root user due to being unable to open/write to /etc/machine-id. I > > made a tempurary fix by touching /etc/machine-id and chmod'ing it to > > 777. > > If the /etc/machine-id message you're getting looks like > > D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read > machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or > directory > > it may be misleading as /etc/machine-id is a fallback if other files > were not found before (see bug 213540, for example). > > Is dbus running when you try to launch XFCE? > That is the message I got... it was immediately after boot and dbus was not running (it asked for a onestart when I attempted to manually start it). My .xinitrc is as follows: xfce4-session -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
