[MacPorts] #20505: dbus doesn't work

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#20505: dbus doesn't work
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 Reporter:  vinc17@…             |       Owner:  mcalhoun@…           
     Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                  
 Priority:  High                 |   Milestone:                       
Component:  ports                |     Version:  1.7.1                
 Keywords:                       |        Port:  dbus                 
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Comment(by jonas@…):

 As you're `ps auxww` shows, the session bus runs for the user root. That
 means, your user doesn't have a session bus running and so the error
 message "Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not
 provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is
 loaded!" is correct.

 The parameter `-w` to `launchctl load` removes the disabled-key from the
 plist. After that it's loaded automatically on startup (launch deamons
 once per system, launch agens once per user). To prevent a reboot you can
 simply load the plist as you normal user (''not'' using sudo).
 My original patch (#17950) for the dbus port which introduced launchd
 support contained an notice saying exactly that. I've no idea why the
 current maintainer removed this message in r49300 (line 98 in the old
 file). Now it tells you explicitly to use sudo, which is wrong as it
 results exactly in the error you've run into...

 Well, maybe not completely wrong, things are a bit more complicated. You
 need sudo in conjunction with the `-w` parameter, else the disabled-key
 can't be removed from the plist-file. But to load launch''agents''
 afterwards sudo loads it for the wrong user (for root instead of yours)

 HTH,
 Jonas

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