Solved Problems installing Firefox and Gnumeric

[Paolo_R]

I get a core dump when, after a pkg install, I try to run these programs. The message is "D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up. Failed to open /etc/machine-id". I am running CDE.

Can any one help with this problem?

Thanks
Paul

 

[Paolo_R]

I get a core dump when, after a pkg install, I try to run these programs. The message is "D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up. Failed to open /etc/machine-id". I am running CDE.

Can any one help with this problem?

Thanks
Paul

I seem to have found a solution.

Add dbus_enable="YES" to rc.conf and then 'dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id'.

 

[drhowarddrfine]

'dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id'

I don't do this so I don't know why you feel you need to.

 

[tobik@]

I don't do this so I don't know why you feel you need to.

Yeah, that's because the rc script does it for you on first start, so a service dbus start would have been enough here.

 

[Paolo_R]

I'm probably displaying my lack of familiarity with UNIX. Anyway it works.

 

[SirDice]

I'm probably displaying my lack of familiarity with UNIX.

More likely FreeBSD specifically. On FreeBSD a lot of rc(8) scripts will automatically initialize things when they are first started. So there's rarely a need to initialize applications by hand.

 

[Paolo_R]

More likely FreeBSD specifically. On FreeBSD a lot of rc(8) scripts will automatically initialize things when they are first started. So there's rarely a need to initialize applications by hand.

Thank you SirDice. I'll revisit my boot/load options.

Paul

 

[giahung1997]

You should mark the thread as Solved. Add dbus_enable="YES" to rc.conf is enough.

 

[Paolo_R]

OK. I'm not sure how to do that.