On 2022-10-26, Matt Connell <m...@connell.tech> wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 16:22 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Apparently, that error is cause by lack of a DBUS session. I just
>> happened to stumble across a posting somewhere by somebody who had the
>> same problem. How they figured out that was the problem remains a
>> mystery.
>
> It is likely that nobody else noticed this because dbus has moved into
> that "it is assumed to be there" tier of daemons these days.
The problem wasn't that the daemon was missing. There is a DBUS
daemon, and other things that use DBUS (e.g. notifications) work fine.
What was apparently missing was a "session"
$ set | grep dbus
$ dbus-launch bash
$ set | grep DBUS
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-45cBmpKpTX,guid=b783eda6500beba7132e450b63596c64
> Like most GNOME components, the GNOME developers are assuming all of
> GNOME is available all of the time.
Yep.
--
Grant
