William G. Scott wrote: > I just got asked the following by a good friend and colleague and have > no idea what the answer is. > > Can someone help please? > > Begin forwarded message: > >> In the last week or two I've started seeing an error message >> following >> any re-boot on any of three Macs that I use (all running 10.4.11, >> one is an >> Intel iMac, one a G5 iMac, the third is a G5 PowerMac). It shows up >> only in >> the first terminal or X11 window that gets opened after reboot, and >> it says: >> >> "Failed to start message bus: Memory allocation failure in message bus >> EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon" >> >> I also noticed that dbus had been updated in fink at around the >> time >> this symptom appeared (present version 1.2.3-4 under "unstable"), >> and all >> three machines got the update. I never selected dbus for >> installation, so >> presumably it must be there because it is a dependency of some other >> program(s). I suspect there might be a permissions problem, as I also >> started seeing an error on my automatic backup program, which told >> me it >> could not read the file dbus-daemon-launch-helper. The directory >> entry for >> this file looks like this: >> >> mac6010-3:/sw/sbin dn$ ls -al dbus-* >> -rwsr-x--- 1 root messageb 830632 Sep 4 14:38 dbus-daemon- >> launch-helper >> >> >> This has been reported on -users, too:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user/27068 although that poster claims that the issue doesn't occur under Terminal.app It doesn't seem to occur on 10.5 as best as I can tell. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
