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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=266931





------- Comment #9 from gjeilers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  2007-06-03 10:46 MST -------
The problem is caused by loss of the environment variable
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS between ending a desktop session and starting a new
one.  In the case of KDE at least, this can be fixed by saving the value in a
per-session file immediately after the session dbus-daemon is created and
restoring it when a new session is started.

You can do that by adding the following lines near the beginning of
/opt/kde3/bin/startkde:

  # Save the current dbus session bus address
  echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS >~/.dbus-session-bus-address

You also need to add the following line before the part of
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.common that tests for and starts a session dbus-daemon:

  # Restore the dbus session bus address if any
  test -r ~/.dbus-session-bus-address && \
       read DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS <~/.dbus-session-bus-address
  export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

There is probably something similar that would work for gnome desktops.

A much better solution would be to prevent the environment variable from
getting cleared in the first place, but I have not been able to find the code
that executes when a desktop session is closed.

This bug is NOT specific to x86-64 hardware as reported.


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