dbus error: F-Spot not launching on a fresh install of Kubuntu Gutsy

[martalli]

Binary package hint: f-spot

I just did a fresh install of Kubuntu gutsy, and then did a full upgrade through adept. Since I have been managing my photos on this machine, I did an install of f-spot. Now, upon opening f-spot, I get an error re: dbus.

F-Spot cannot find the Dbus session bus. Make sure dbus is configured properly or start a new session for f-spot "dbus-launch f-spot"

and then the following error details are included:

An unhandled exception was thrown: F-Spot cannot find the Dbus session bus. Make sure dbus is configured properly or start a new session for f-spot using "dbus-launch f-spot"

  at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
.NET Version: 2.0.50727.42

Assembly Version Information:

gdk-sharp (2.10.0.0)
gnome-vfs-sharp (2.16.0.0)
Mono.Addins (0.2.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.GLib (1.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus (1.0.0.0)
System (2.0.0.0)
Mono.Posix (2.0.0.0)
atk-sharp (2.10.0.0)
gtk-sharp (2.10.0.0)
Mono.Addins.Setup (0.2.0.0)
glib-sharp (2.10.0.0)
gnome-sharp (2.16.0.0)
f-spot (0.4.0.0)
Mono.GetOptions (2.0.0.0)
mscorlib (2.0.0.0)

Platform Information: Linux 2.6.22-11-generic i686 unknown GNU/Linux

Distribution Information:

[/etc/debian_version]
lenny/sid

[/etc/lsb-release]
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu gutsy (development branch)"

I tried running dbus-launch f-spot, but only got errors. I also tried reinstalling dbus and f-spot through adept, but that did not change anything (not that I really expected that to work, but hey).

Now, I previously had f-spot on this computer, so the original files are all still there in my home partition. Could this have caused the problem? I wouldn't have thought so...

Thanks, Bryan

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report as such. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. http://launchpad.net/support ; Looks like your dbus service is not running. not a f-spot problem.

[e (0x0065)]

This error occurs on my gentoo system with dbus running as a service and all other apps using dbus without reporting any problem...
...probably an f-spot problem.

erik@0x0065 ~ $ f-spot
System.ApplicationException: F-Spot cannot find the Dbus session bus. Make sure dbus is configured properly or start a new session for f-spot using "dbus-launch f-spot" ---> System.Exception: Unable to open the session message bus. ---> System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: address
  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.Open (System.String address) [0x00000]
  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000]
  at NDesk.DBus.BusG.Init () [0x00000]
  at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

  at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

erik@0x0065 ~ $ su
Password:
0x0065 erik # /etc/init.d/dbus start
 * WARNING: dbus has already been started.
0x0065 erik # ps -A | grep dbus
 5227 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
 5464 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
 5465 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
0x0065 erik # exit
erik@0x0065 ~ $ f-spot
System.ApplicationException: F-Spot cannot find the Dbus session bus. Make sure dbus is configured properly or start a new session for f-spot using "dbus-launch f-spot" ---> System.Exception: Unable to open the session message bus. ---> System.ArgumentNullException: Argument cannot be null.
Parameter name: address
  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.Open (System.String address) [0x00000]
  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

  at NDesk.DBus.Bus.get_Session () [0x00000]
  at NDesk.DBus.BusG.Init () [0x00000]
  at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

  at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

erik@0x0065 ~ $ dbus-launch f-spot
Initializing Mono.Addins
Starting new FSpot server

...again, nothing else is complaining...

[e (0x0065)]

   try {
    NDesk.DBus.BusG.Init();
   } catch (Exception e) {
    throw new ApplicationException ("F-Spot cannot find the Dbus session bus. Make sure dbus is configured properly or start a new session for f-spot using \"dbus-launch f-spot\"", e);
   }
   /*
    * FIXME we need to inialize gobject before making the dbus calls, we'll go
    * ahead and do it like this for now.
    */
   program = new Program (Defines.PACKAGE,
            Defines.VERSION,
            Modules.UI, args);

   Console.WriteLine ("Initializing Mono.Addins");
   AddinManager.Initialize (FSpot.Global.BaseDirectory);
   AddinManager.Registry.Update (null);
   SetupService setupService = new SetupService (AddinManager.Registry);
   setupService.Repositories.RegisterRepository (null, "http://addins.f-spot.org", false);

[Maia Everett (linneris)]

Does installing the dbus-x11 package solve the problem?

[foxy123 (foxy)]

I've got the same problem. Can launch F-Spot with 'dbus launch f-spot' but trying just 'f-spot' gives me the same error

[Natan (nvivo)]

I have the same problem using Kubuntu 8.04 amd64.

Installed Kubuntu yesterday, then installed "f-spot" package. It gives the exact same error when I launch.

Tried "sudo /etc/init.d/dbus start", it gives me:
 * system message bus already started; not starting.