On Tuesday 26 June 2007 00:12:18 Will Stephenson wrote:
On Monday 25 June 2007, Ian Moore said:
I've been doing some googling and experimented a bit more - if I run sudo /usr/bin/dbus-launcher in a konsole in KDE3 and then run a kde4 app, it runs. I tried the same from an xterm with no window manager running and then try kdeinit4, but I still get the dbus error. Should dbus-launcher be added to some conf file to make a kde4 session work?
The dbus-launch for KDE4 on 10.2 is known to be broken (or so Dirk tells me). It's fixed for FACTORY, but for 10.2 building the dbus from FACTORY would be necessary, or else start it by hand, as you've discovered. You can also hand-start it from the system console, instead of needing a parallel KDE3 session.
Meaning you can run dbus-launch and then Alt-F7 back to kdm, choose the kde4 seesion type & login? I've tried that & it doesn't work. Also tried init 3 && /usr/bin/dbus-launch && init5 and that doesn't work either! Am I doing the wrong thing there? If I wanted to rebuild dbus-launch, would I do something like http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source... (there doesn't seem to be a dbus-launch package there, perhaps it's part of dbus itself?), unpack it (not sure how I'd unpack an rpm tho') and run ./configure && make && make install? Cheers, -- Ian GPG Key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/imoore-swift.asc