D-Bus Error while starting Gimp

[Nicholas Gates]

Thank you! That worked.

On 7/7/07, Yves de Champlain <yves at macports.org> wrote:
>
> Le 07-07-07 à 10:42, Nicholas Gates a écrit :
>
> > I just installed gimp-dev and tried to start the program for the first
> > time. However, I am getting the following error:
> >
> > $ sudo /opt/local/bin/gimp-2.3
> > process 458: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to
> > read machine uuid: Failed to open
> > "/opt/local/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory
> > See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
> >  D-Bus not compiled with backtrace support so unable to print a
> > backtrace
> > /opt/local/bin/gimp-2.3: line 8:   458 Abort trap
> > /opt/local/gimp-2.3/bin/gimp-2.3 "$@"
> >
> >
> > Any ideas on what is going on? How can I fix this?
>
> I don't know dbus so I can't tell what is happening, but the easy
> solution is
>
> dbus-launch gimp-2.3
>
> yves
>
>