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
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J.J. Green,  Seaview Sensing Ltd., http://seaviewsensing.com/