ERROR: Failed to connect to CDEmu daemon: g-dbus-error-quark: Error calling StartServiceByName for net.sf.cdemu.CDEmuDaemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process net.sf.cdemu.CDEmuDaemon exited with status 255 (25)

[Cristian Aravena Romero]

Error with kernel 4.12.0-041200rc4-generic...

$ cdemu create-blank --writer-id=WRITER-ISO --medium-type=dvd+r 0 ~/virt.iso
ERROR: Failed to connect to CDEmu daemon: g-dbus-error-quark: Error calling StartServiceByName for net.sf.cdemu.CDEmuDaemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process net.sf.cdemu.CDEmuDaemon exited with status 255 (25)

[Rok Mandeljc (rok-mandeljc)]

The kernel module is likely failing to build, as vhba-module-20161009 lacks support for kernel 4.11 or later.

I've pushed vhba-module-20170610 release with added support for 4.11+, which should fix the issue. (The rest of CDEmu components have been updated as well.).

[Pascal Mons (anton+)]

On Kernel 4.15.0-48-generic installed on Ubuntu 16.04 cdemu 3.2.1 failed to autostart

Daemon autostart failed. Error:
g-dbus-error-quark: Error calling StartServiceByName for net.sf.cdemu.CDEmuDaemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process net.sf.cdemu.CDEmuDaemon exited with status 255 (25)

[Lars Bahner (bahner)]

On Ubuntu 18.04
~$ cdemu load 0 `pwd`/COMBATFS.iso
FEIL: Mislyktes i \xe5 koble til CDEmu demon: g-dbus-error-quark: Error calling StartServiceByName for net.sf.cdemu.CDEmuDaemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process net.sf.cdemu.CDEmuDaemon exited with status 255 (25)
~$ uname -a
Linux venus 4.18.0-17-generic #18~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 15 15:27:12 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux