Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1479 mails)

[Marc Chamberlin <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/1/2012 1:36 AM, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
> 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.
Thanks Dr Werner for your help/reply, much appreciated! Yes, this does 
"fix" emacs up enough that it is healthy enough to run, and it certainly 
brings up emacs with a more primitive Look&Feel! Upon some further 
investigating I discovered I am only having this problem when I su to 
Root. Emacs works fine if I am running under my own user account. 
Interesting! Something about being the root user that emacs doesn't like?
> 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.
Hmmmm  I investigated both my own home dir and root's home dir and there 
is no such file called .xsession! Googling around tells me that there 
can be either a ~/.xsession or a ~/.xinitrc which are startup scripts 
for X. I have neither of these in my home dir or in root's  But there is 
an xinitrc file in /etc/X11/xinit/  which I sort of grok as being 
probably the same thing?

I am NOT a Linux/openSuSE/X11 expert by any means, so am struggling to 
understand... Sorry if this is a newbie question...  I did find a HUGE 
.xsession-errors file in my home dir which suggests there might be 
something very wrong with the configuration of X11 on my system? 
Googling also lead me to a bug submission about this file being so big, 
in the openSuSE bugs database, so perhaps there is a problem in my 
installation of openSuSE11.4?

Anywise, since I don't have either of these files in my home dir, I am 
not sure what to do at this point. I will mention that my /home dir is 
located in a separate partition and I leave it alone and simply mount it 
as I migrate/upgrade from one version of openSuSE to the next. My 
understanding has been that this is an OK practice which allows me to 
easily migrate my personal settings/files from one version of openSuSE 
to the next. Is this perhaps too much to expect? or a broken model that 
no longer works?
>       Werner
Thanks again for your thoughts and reply...    Marc...

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