Re: Two dbus questions

[Dan Cîrnaț <cirnatdan%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hi,


On 31.03.21 21:34, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> I am using 9.99.81 amd64 (GENERIC)
>
> 1. I built the gnome3 metapackage, and tried gedit from the commandline. 

Unfortunately GNOME3 packages are probably half-broken[0]. I am
currently focusing on getting thew newest GNOME40 release instead. The
new version is in WIP[1], feel free to give it a try.

> The editor launched, but not before issuing this:
>
> "(gedit:18215): dconf-WARNING **: 14:19:18.664: failed to commit changes 
> to dconf: Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id: Unable to 
> load /var/lib/dbus/machine-id or /etc/machine-id: Failed to open file 
> ?/var/lib/dbus/machine-id?: No such file or directory"
>
> But I just ran 'sh /etc/weekly' and see this:
>
> # locate machine-id
> /var/db/dbus/machine-id
>
> For dbus:
> # pkg_info -c dbus
> Information for dbus-1.12.20:
Please rebuild `devel/glib2` and `sysutils/dbus`, and move 
/var/db/dbus/machine-id to /var/lib/dbus/machine-id. There's recently been
an update to the paths in these packages. [2]

Best,
Dan


[0] https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2021/03/24/msg024686.html
[1] https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2021/03/26/msg033478.html
[2] https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2021/03/30/msg033513.html