2007/3/20, Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp@kv.net.pl>:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:21:03 +0100
> "Zafer Aydogan" <zafer@aydogan.de> wrote:
>
> > 2007/3/19, Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp@kv.net.pl>:
> > > 1) gtk-gnutella
> > > Where to search for and how to correct that?
> > > ------
> > > bash-3.2$ gtk-gnutella
> > > 07-03-18 10:20:01 (MESSAGE): language code: "en"
> > > 07-03-18 10:20:01 (MESSAGE): using locale character set "UTF-8"
> > > 07-03-18 10:20:01 (MESSAGE): primary filename character set "UTF-8"
> > > 07-03-18 10:20:01 (MESSAGE): gtk-gnutella/0.96.1 (2006-02-22; GTK2;
> > > NetBSD i386) process 1996: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly
> > > set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open
> > > "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory See the
> > > manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue. D-Bus not
> > > compiled with backtrace support so unable to print a backtrace
> > > Abort trap (core dumped) bash-3.2$ ------
> > >
> > you have to add "dbus=yes" in /etc/rc.conf and either reboot or run
> > /etc/rc.d/dbus start to fix that.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry but that didn't help.
>
> I did RTFM and found this excerpt:
>  The primary usage of dbus‐uuidgen is to run in the post‐install  script
>  of a D‐Bus package like this:
>  dbus‐uuidgen ‐‐ensure
>
> I followed the instruction and then I got a message:
>
>  bash-3.2# dbus-uuidgen --ensure
>  Could not create file /var/lib/dbus/machine-id: No such file or directory
>  bash-3.2#
>
The files are generated automatically when you run the dbus daemon.
You should start the dbus daemon upfront, as I described.

Zafer.


> It seams the MAN is for Linux world not NetBSD.
>
> I can live without Gnutella, I got all files via wget, but I think dbus technique should be working in NetBSD flawlessly once it has been incorporated to the system.
>
> > > 2) AbiWord 2.4 (from binary version)
> > > It makes core-dump after cutting words. Both via Ctrl-Del, and
> > > "Scissors" button.
>
> No one got bogged down with this misbehavior so I hurry to add that part of my libs comes from pkgsrc as I compiled mplayer, openmotif, ms-ttf, etc. Perhaps AbiWord is too sensitive to such "explosive mixture"? But that would be beyond my understanding as NetBSD do not provide some binaries due to US law. So the remaining programs should be tested more thoroughly. After all Abiword behavior as I described it is so unprecedented one that I don't dare to think it found its way to repositories without being checked.
>
> I strongly suggest to make the lacking binaries together with other applications and then put them onto unofficial server. Do I demand too much?
>
> Regards,
> pp
>
> --
> Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp@kv.net.pl>