Hi all I'm running a freshly installed sl51 and on login get a very annoying message from the gnome-settings-manager about being unable to contact to socket: /tmp/dbus-kjsdfhjd : connection refused.
A ps shows that dbus-daemon is not running (although a dbus-launch is hanging around). Looking in /etc/init.d/messagebus prompts me to try dbus-daemon --system by hand : still no dbus running. So I try an strace: strace -f dbus-daemon --system execve("/bin/dbus-daemon", ["dbus-daemon", "--system"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0 : rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 chdir("/") = 0 clone(Process 13760 attached child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7f9e718) = 13760 [pid 13759] open("/var/run/messagebus.pid", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0644 <unfinished ...> [pid 13760] getsockname(4, <unfinished ...> : [pid 13759] munmap(0xb7faa000, 4096 <unfinished ...> [pid 13760] fcntl64(6, F_GETFD <unfinished ...> [pid 13759] <... munmap resumed> ) = 0 [pid 13760] <... fcntl64 resumed> ) = 0 [pid 13759] exit_group(0) = ? [pid 13760] dup2(6, 4) = 4 [pid 13760] fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, 0) = 0 [pid 13760] close(6) = 0 write(4, "\25\3\1\0 \335o\270^\301\310\7\323xp<\17\373R\316\37C\2576\346^/\24\221%\335\205"..., 37) = -1 EPIPE (Broken pipe) --- SIGPIPE (Broken pipe) @ 0 (0) --- Process 13760 detached So it looks like dbus is bombing out on a broken pipe. Anyone seen this before or have an idea about how to fix it? Thanks in advance! Jim -- J.J. Green, Seaview Sensing Ltd., http://seaviewsensing.com/