can not start aGUI session after update

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TroN-0074

• Feb 16, 2012

• #1

Hopefully somebody have a work around for this from previous problem. The thing is after I update my system I can no longer start a graphical interface session.
The error I got is

Code:

Could not start D-bus, can you call qdbus?

I wonder if during the upgrade the dbus script file got modified. I really don't know and I would like to hear some advices.
Thank you I will appreciate it.

 

SirDice

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• Feb 16, 2012

• #2

What did you update and how did you do it?

 

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TroN-0074

• Feb 16, 2012

• Thread Starter
• #3

Thank you for your reply. The update I did was using

Code:

# Portupgrade -a

then everything was upgraded but when I tried to start KDE I got the message that could not start D-bus.
I don't know what happened and I was hopping somebody here had seem this error before.
I will appreciate all advice.

 

SirDice

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• Feb 16, 2012

• #4

Don't just blindly run portupgrade -a. Always read /usr/ports/UPDATING beforehand. There's even a command for it these days: pkg_updating(1).

 

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TroN-0074

• Feb 16, 2012

• Thread Starter
• #5

I learned my lesson the hard way. However I would like to solve the D-bus problem and then worry about keeping the ports up date.

Actually I don't really know if I will use my port collection anymore since my computer is quite old it takes really long time to compile software from source. I find quicker just to do a pkg_add -r

I will appreciate any help. Thank you.

 

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T-Daemon

• Feb 17, 2012

• #6

TroN-0074 said:

Code:

Could not start D-bus, can you call qdbus?

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Call qdbus from the command line, as the message is asking for. The output might give some extra messages, hinting to the problem.

 

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TroN-0074

• Feb 17, 2012

• Thread Starter
• #7

Thank you I had called qdbus and this is what I get

Code:

Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x40701) with this library (version 0x40704)
Abort trap (core dumped)

I was advised to re install Qt but I am not sure how to do that in FreeBSD I am using KDE4.
I will appreciate more advice thank you.

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Solved:
Removed everything

Code:

# pkg_delete -a

then re install all packages. A bit radical solution but it worked.