Activating dbus @1.4.20_0+startupitem fails

[Watch Dog]

On 2012/05/05 10:05, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> Immediately after running "sudo port selfupdate" with MacPorts 2.0.4 under
> OS X 10.7.3, I ran "sudo port upgrade outdated". MacPorts proceeded to
> attempt to update dbus, but it failed:
>
> --->  Computing dependencies for dbus
> --->  Fetching archive for dbus
> --->  Attempting to fetch dbus-1.4.20_0+startupitem.darwin_11.x86_64.tbz2
> from http://packages.macports.org/dbus
> --->  Fetching dbus
> --->  Attempting to fetch dbus-1.4.20.tar.gz from
> http://ykf.ca.distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/mpdistfiles/dbus
> --->  Attempting to fetch dbus-1.4.20.tar.gz from
> http://distfiles.macports.org/dbus
> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for dbus
> --->  Extracting dbus
> --->  Applying patches to dbus
> --->  Configuring dbus
> --->  Building dbus
> --->  Staging dbus into destroot
> --->  Installing dbus @1.4.20_0+startupitem
> --->  Cleaning dbus
> --->  Computing dependencies for dbus
> --->  Deactivating dbus @1.4.18_0
> --->  Cleaning dbus
> --->  Activating dbus @1.4.20_0+startupitem
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: could not set owner for file
> "/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist": no such file or
> directory
>
> Why

Untested fix to an untested commit that never should have been done in
the first place.

> and how to fix?

Wait for a tested fix from someone who knows how to make it work.

> (I didn't install dbus directly myself, but I presume it was installed
> because qt4-mac depends upon it, and ipe upon that.)