Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1479 mails)

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:46:28PM -0800, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
> I saw a posting on this group recently saying that xemacs is about to
> be dropped, so decided I better start training my fingers to use
> emacs instead. Am running openSuSE 11.4 x86_64 and tried to fire off
> emacs and it  barfed -
>
> emacs vsftpd.conf &
> [1] 22024
> bigbang:/srv/ftp # GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration
> server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus
> session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for
> information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: The
> connection is closed)
> g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error:
> Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read
> (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
>
> [1]+  Terminated              emacs vsftpd.conf
>
>
> Can anyone decipher this for me and tell me how to help emacs feel
> better?  Thanks much, Marc...

Guess: you're using the default that is emacs-gtk and this one requires
a running D-Bus.  You may do

   export EMACS_TOOLKIT=x11

before starting emacs.  But with this you'll see the Xaw3d API and
not the modern GTK Look&Feel.

Btw: using standard login should use dbus-launch ... for my personal
~/.xsession I'm using

     killall -u werner -q dbus-daemon
     exec -a dbus-launch dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session fvwm2

as very last line.

     Werner

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