Invoking a MediaScanner via D-Bus doesn't seem to work anymore

[Paul van Tilburg]

I use the following script to call an Elisa rescan when I've changed something on disk to the Elisa Video or Music library:

---
#!/bin/sh

dbus-send --dest=com.fluendo.Elisa \
  /com/fluendo/Elisa/Plugins/Database/MediaScanner \
  com.fluendo.Elisa.Plugins.Database.MediaScanner.start
---

However, since an unknown number of releases ago, this stopped working. Nothing seems to happend when I run it.

[Philippe Normand (philn)]

Works with d-feet but not with dbus-send. Does dbus-send works for other calls?

[Paul van Tilburg (paulvt)]

Indeed, other commands also do not work using d-bus send, e.g.:
dbus-send --dest=com.fluendo.Elisa \
    /com/fluendo/Elisa/Plugins/Poblesec/AudioPlayer \
    com.fluendo.Elisa.Plugins.Poblesec.AudioPlayer.toggle_pause

[Paul van Tilburg (paulvt)]

Uhm, ok... if I add --print-reply to the command line it works?

[Philippe Normand (philn)]

Any update on this?

[Paul van Tilburg (paulvt)]

Well, I'm using it happily now with --print-reply, though noone seems to be able to offer me a reason why. Probably, it's a dbus-send and this bug can be closed if you agree.

[Philippe Normand (philn)]

Reassigning to dbus as this issue doesn't seem to be specific to Elisa