Running meld (dbus error: autolaunch requested but X11 support not compiled)

[iulian dragos]

Hello,

I've been trying to get meld on Mac OS for a few times in the past
year and a half, with no success. I searched Google, the nabble
archives, and everything I could think of, but nothing helped, so here
I am.

I installed meld using a fresh port installation (MacPorts 1.9.2). I'm
on Mac OS 10.6.6.
Everything went fine during compilation. I ran the two commands listed by dbus:

--->  Activating dbus @1.2.24_1
############################################################################
# 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 them to launch at startup:
#
# sudo launchctl load -w
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist
# launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
############################################################################

The only weird thing was that I needed to do 'sudo' for the second
command as well (didn't have permissions otherwise).

Then I tried to run meld, and here's the output:

$ meld

(process:78120): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-hVOIj6/org.x:0".
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/local/bin/meld", line 123, in <module>
    main()
  File "/opt/local/bin/meld", line 115, in main
    app = meld.meldapp.MeldApp()
  File "/opt/local/lib/meld/meld/meldapp.py", line 136, in __init__
    self.prefs = preferences.MeldPreferences()
  File "/opt/local/lib/meld/meld/preferences.py", line 289, in __init__
    super(MeldPreferences, self).__init__("/apps/meld", self.defaults)
  File "/opt/local/lib/meld/meld/util/prefs.py", line 92, in __init__
    self._gconf.add_dir(rootkey, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
glib.GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible
causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you
have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1:
Failed to get connection to session: Command line `dbus-launch
--autolaunch=8b3f1f14a2f770b7442e2c414d3803b3 --binary-syntax
--close-stderr' exited with non-zero exit status 1: Autolaunch
requested, but X11 support not compiled in.\nCannot continue.\n)

I didn't find any information about X11 support in dbus on the net (at
least, nothing useful). Can anyone help me? Even just to say that they
could successfully install and run meld (I'd know at least that my
quest is possible).

thanks,
iulian
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