On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Peter Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 22:32 -0400, Gregg Levine wrote: > >> Hello! >> And now a new problem for us to consider. >> It seems to be complaining about how the D-Bus library was setup. And >> it's complaining about not being able to find the entry >> /var/lib/dbus/machine-id it seems it wasn't setup. >> >> This is from running the geda thing directly from the bin directory. > > xgsch2pcb (I think symlinked to "geda" in the binary distribution) > requires DBus to communicate with PCB. > > It sounds like you haven't got DBus running on your remote login > session. That isn't entirely surprising, it usually only gets launched > with a full desktop session. > > Try: > > dbus-launch geda > > (or) > > dbus-launch xgsc2pcb > > The missing machine-id may be more related to the "system bus", but I'm > not sure. If you just installed DBus, you might need a reboot (or to > restart its service), for that to be generated the first time. > > Again.. what distro is this? > > -- > Peter Clifton > > Electrical Engineering Division, > Engineering Department, > University of Cambridge, > 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, > Cambridge > > CB3 0FA > > Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) >
Hello! You asked " Again.. what distro is this?". It is still Slackware 11.0. With KDE and some GTK stuff installed, but I've never gotten a proper GNOME session on it. ----- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This signature was once found posting rude messages in English in the Moscow subway." _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user