Meld fails to start; complains about launchd not providing socket path

[Garth Dahlstrom]

I missed totally that, serves me right for not reviewing the build
output....   Thanks to both William and yourself for the magic lines...
Having rebooted, I now have meld going.

Cheers,

-G
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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

> On May 20, 2009, at 20:32, Garth Dahlstrom wrote:
>
>  [797] ged at garth-dahlstroms-macbook:~$ meld
>>>> Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-Y4N79L/:0".
>>>> Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a
>>>> socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Did you load org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist? If not, someone more
>>> familiar with this software should be able to tell you how, though I expect
>>> one of the dbus ports would have printed a message for you during
>>> installation explaining how to do so.
>>>
>>
>> I haven't because I don't have an idea how one would go about loading it,
>>  I presume its part of gnome (being that it dbus is part of its name)...
>>
>> Here's the gnome stuff that's been sucked in from meld and the other
>> packages I've built from ports so far, maybe the meld package is missing a
>> dep?
>>
>> [558] ged at garth-dahlstroms-macbook:~/Documents/workspace/ums-code/A/trunk$
>> sudo port installed | grep -i gnome
>>  gnome-common @2.26.0_0 (active)
>>  gnome-doc-utils @0.16.1_0 (active)
>>  gnome-icon-theme @2.26.0_0 (active)
>>  gnome-keyring @2.26.1_0 (active)
>>  gnome-mime-data @2.18.0_3 (active)
>>  gnome-vfs @2.24.1_0 (active)
>>  libgnome @2.26.0_0 (active)
>>  libgnomecanvas @2.26.0_0 (active)
>>  libgnomeui @2.24.1_0 (active)
>>  py25-gnome @2.26.1_0+darwin_9 (active)
>>
>
> org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is provided by the dbus port, which you
> should have because gnome-vfs depends on it. The dbus port should have
> printed this message when it was installed:
>
>
> #################################################################################################
> # Startup items have been generated that will aid in
> # starting dbus with launchd. They are disabled
> # by default. Execute the following command to start them,
> # and to cause it to launch at startup:
> #
> # sudo launchctl load -w
> ${startup_root}/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
> # sudo launchctl load -w
> ${startup_root}/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
>
> ##################################################################################################
>
> If you used the +no_root variant of dbus, then the command "sudo" would
> have been omitted in these instructions.
>
>
>
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