[KDE/Mac] My dbus doesn't work on MacOSX anymore...

[Marko Käning]

Hi KDE devs,

I've got a question concerning dbus.

I installed kde 4.7.0 via MacPorts on MacOSX and experience an annoying problem with dbus since many weeks which is preventing starting of any KDE application [1].

Only today I found the tool qdbus which revealed that it is impossible connect to the system dbus:
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$ qdbus --system
Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /opt/macports-test/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
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Checking the socket shows that it should be read- and writeable to anyone:
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$ ls -la /opt/macports-test/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket 
srwxrwxrwx  1 root  messagebus  0 Aug  7 10:18 /opt/macports-test/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket
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One can also see that the path towards the socket is free:
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markos-imac:~ marko$ ls -la /opt/macports-test/var/run | grep dbus
drwxr-xr-x   4 messagebus  messagebus  136 Aug  7 10:18 dbus

markos-imac:~ marko$ ls -la /opt/macports-test/var/run/dbus 
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  4 messagebus  messagebus  136 Aug  7 10:18 .
drwxr-xr-x  5 root        admin       170 Jul 22 16:51 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root        admin         0 Jul 22 16:51 .turd_dbus
srwxrwxrwx  1 root        messagebus    0 Aug  7 10:18 system_bus_socket

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In the last lines I see that there is a mix of messagebus and root in ownership… But I guess this isn't the reason.

Any ideas what could go wrong here?

Greets,
Marko


P.S.: What's the .turd_dbus file for?




[1] http://trac.macports.org/ticket/29409