----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <garnome-list@gnome.org> Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 12:14 PM Subject: Re: Garnome 2.20.0 - System Administartion
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:35:00 +0100, Thomas wrote: > > > I am a new user of Garnome and a long time user of Slackware. Can anyone > > give me some idea on how to get the System->Administration tools to > > work. e.g network-admin. > > When I try these I get:- > > "The configuration could not be loaded" "You are not allowed to access > > the system configuration" The system log file shows: > > "Liboobs WARNING The name org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends was not > > provided in any .service files" > > > > Thankyou in advance > > > > Tom Gibson > > Sounds like a dbus issue. See the README. While Slackware-12 has dbus, > garnome installs files in its own $GARNOME/etc and therein lies a problem. > When the system loads dbus, it will not see the garnome dbus configuration. > > In the README there is documentation to work around this. > > #!/bin/bash > > GARNOME=$HOME/garnome > > ## Use GARNOME's DBus, HAL, and Avahi > > ## Fedora users should uncomment this section > #if [ `grep "<user>messagebus</user>" $GARNOME/etc/dbus-1/system.conf` ]; > then > # cat $GARNOME/etc/dbus-1/system.conf | \ > # sed 's,<user>messagebus</user>,<user>dbus</user>,' > \ > # $GARNOME/etc/dbus-1/system.conf; > #fi > > su -c "pkill dbus; \ > pkill avahi-daemon; \ > pkill avahi-dnsconfd; \ > pkill hald; \ > rm -rf $GARNOME/var/run/messagebus.pid; \ > rm -rf $GARNOME/var/run/avahi-daemon/pid; \ > rm -rf $GARNOME/var/run/haldaemon.pid; \ > $GARNOME/bin/dbus-daemon --system; \ > $GARNOME/sbin/avahi-daemon -D; \ > $GARNOME/sbin/avahi-dnsconfd -D; \ > $GARNOME/sbin/hald" > > Once the DBus, HAL, and Avahi daemons are running you must create a > garnome-session script to start GARNOME. An example startup script > would look like: > > #!/bin/bash > > GARNOME=$HOME/garnome > > PATH=$GARNOME/bin:$PATH > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$GARNOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH > PYTHONPATH=$GARNOME/lib/python2.4/site-packages:$GARNOME/lib/python2.4/ > site-packages/gtk-2.0 > PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$GARNOME/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig > GDK_USE_XFT=1 > XDG_DATA_DIRS=$GARNOME/share > XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=$GARNOME/etc/xdg > MANPATH=$GARNOME/man:$MANPATH > DBUS_LAUNCH="$GARNOME/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session" > > export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH PYTHONPATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH \ > GDK_USE_XFT XDG_DATA_DIRS XDG_CONFIG_DIRS MANPATH DBUS_LAUNCH > > exec $DBUS_LAUNCH $GARNOME/bin/gnome-session > > > > -- > Peter > > -- > garnome-list mailing list > garnome-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list > I am certain you are correct. However I had read the README file and I think I am doing what it says. I have modified the Slackware start-up files in /etc/rc.d to start the Garnome versions of hal,dbus & avahi. Do I need to modify the config files in $GARNOME/etc/dbus? Do I need to define special users or groups? Tom Gibson -- garnome-list mailing list garnome-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/garnome-list