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

[iulian dragos]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Jeremy Huddleston
<jeremyhu at macports.org> wrote:
>
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 01:58, iulian dragos wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> dbus doesn't really have anything to do with X11.

I don't doubt that, but then what do you make of the error message?
Here it is again:

> 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)

>
> > 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).
>
> As mentioned, just load the LaunchAgent.  Don't use sudo or you'll be loading it for root (not your user).

Unfortunately, that's what I tried first. It didn't work. Here it is again.

$ launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
launchctl: CFURLWriteDataAndPropertiesToResource(/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.501/overrides.plist)
failed: -10

The file in /var/db/... is not writeable:
$ ll /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.501/overrides.plist
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Jan 21 09:51
/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.501/overrides.plist

without '-w' the error is even more interesting.

$ launchctl load  /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
nothing found to load

I found traces of crashes in the system log:

1/20/11 10:43:17
AM	com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[208]	(org.freedesktop.dbus-session[69379])
Job appears to have crashed: Segmentation fault

After I manually changed permissions on
/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd.peruser.501/overrides.plist I
could launch dbus-session without root privileges. This has not solved
my problem, I still get the previous error message when running meld.

thanks everyone for helping,
iulian

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