[sugar] Alt+= console dbus problem under Debian

Brandon Philips brandon
Sat Apr 7 01:18:16 EDT 2007


On 21:45 Fri 06 Apr 2007, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 15:17 -0700, Brandon Philips wrote:
> > I am running the latest version of Sugar using jhbuild under Debian[1].
> > Most things work and I am able to do development on my activity.
> > However, I am getting the following dbus error under both python dbus
> > 0.71-3 and 0.80.2-1 when trying to pull up the console with alt+=.
> > 
> > Any suggestions on how to fix this?  
> > 
> > $ ./sugar-jhbuild
> > Extended Input Devices not yet supported. Impelement it at line 625 in
> > ../../../../hw/kdrive/src/kinput.c
> > Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing
> > from list!
> > 
> > # I hit alt + =
> > 
> > Introspect error: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message
> > bus)
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File
> > "/home/philips/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/build/share/sugar/shell/view/keyhandler.py",
> > line 222, in _toggle_console_visibility_cb
> >     console.toggle_visibility()
> >   File
> > "/home/philips/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py",
> > line 89, in __call__
> >     return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
> >   File
> > "/home/philips/olpc/sugar-jhbuild/build/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py",
> > line 183, in __call__
> >     reply_message =
> > self._connection.send_message_with_reply_and_block(message, timeout)
> > DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.3
> > was not provided by any .service files
> 
> Make sure you have D-Bus 1.0.x  as 0.7x is very old and many bugs have
> been fixed since then.  We are guaranteed not to work on older versions
> of D-Bus and old versions of the python bindings.  Also make sure you
> are not running two versions of the bus at the same time.

I am running dbus 1.0.2-1 and python-dbus 0.80.2-1 under Debian.

What do you mean by running two versions of the bus at the same time?  

I have a dbus system daemon started by init.d and a session daemon
started by eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax` in my .xinitrc.

Thanks,

	Brandon



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