KUniqueApplication complains ' Cannot find the D-Bus session server'

[Hui Jin]

Hi all,

This is also available in my blog:
http://kopete-qq.blogspot.com/2006/06/howto-upgrade-to-head-kdelibs4.html


On 6/28/06, Hui Jin <blueangel.jin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for your generous help. I now could run kopete without problem.
> I would like to share the experience with you. Sorry, I could not add
> this post to the blog, since Blogger seems down today. I would add it
> ASAP.
>
> This HOWTO assume you have installed Qt4 and kdelibs4 before, and you
> would like to upgrade it to the HEAD. The Qt4 is insalled in
> /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.1.3, and a symbol link is created in
> /usr/qt/4; kdelibs is installed in /usr/local/KDE-4.0.
>
> Let's start from the begining:
> 0. Read PORTING-TO-DBUS.txt in kdelibs4_snapshot
> 1. build dbus-0.62+
> 2. fetch kdesupport, build qt-dbus binding. I install it to
> /usr/local/KDE-4.0, YMMV.
>   cd ~/kdesupport; mkdir obj; cd obj;
>   cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/KDE-4.0 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug ../
>   make && sudo make install
>
> 3. Add this line to your .bashrc to make pkg-config happy:
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/KDE-4.0/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/qt/4/lib
> So you would not set it up later.
>
> 4. Build kdelibs
>   cd kdelibs; mkdir obj; cd obj;
>   source ~/.bashrc
>   cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/KDE-4.0 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug ../
>   make && sudo make install
>
> 5. Build kopete
>   cd kdenetwork; mkdir obj; cd obj;
>   cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/KDE-4.0 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug ../
>   make && make install
>
> I met some problems here:
> the make just complains that dbus/qdbus.h is not found. Here is a
> quick-and-dirty hack, add the hard-coded directory to the
> CMakeList.txt : Ln 33
>
> include_directories ( /usr/local/KDE-4.0/include/dbus-1.0
> ${QDBUS_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR} ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
> ${KDE4_INCLUDES})
>
> 6. start dbus
>   $ dbus-launch --sh-syntax
> It looks like the DBus environment is not corrected exported. So I
> manually export the variables from the output:
> export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS='unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-29IavvsbXU,guid=fc11a244b8f599eb607605fa0b449100'
> export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=11244
>
> 7 start kopete
>   $ kopete
> Ok, kopete launches, but no account available here. I checked the
> output, and found the version number confliction of
> /var/tmp/kdecache-YOURNAME, just delete it and restart the kopete. It
> works.
>
> Thanks for your patience to go so far. :-)
>
>
>
> On 6/27/06, Will Stephenson <wstephenson at kde.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday 27 June 2006 20:00, Hui Jin wrote:
> >
> > > I have following the PORTING-TO-DBUS.txt to build the kdelibs4 and
> >
> > > kdesupport, for dbus part, I emerge the dbus-0.62 in the system-wide.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > $ eix dbus
> >
> > > * sys-apps/dbus
> >
> > > Available versions: 0.23.4-r1 0.50-r1 0.50-r2 0.60-r3 0.60-r4 0.61
> >
> > > 0.61-r1 Installed: 0.62
> >
> > > Homepage: http://dbus.freedesktop.org/
> >
> > > Description: A message bus system, a simple way for
> >
> > > applications to talk to each other
> >
> > >
> >
> > > I then restart the dbus, and start custom-built kopete:
> >
> > >
> >
> > > kopete: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Then I restart the computer, my uptime :-(.
> >
> > > Still no luck. Any suggestions?
> >
> >
> >
> > KUniqueApplication reads the environment variables DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
> > and DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID. Are these variables set in your KDE session? Is
> > there a dbus-daemon running as you? You might try launching your own session
> > bus locally and then running your KDE4 kopete.
> >
> >
> >
> > eg
> >
> > $ (do whatever is needed to set up your KDE4 environment)
> >
> > $ eval `dbus-launch`
> >
> > (this sets the above variables)
> >
> > $ kopete
> >
> >
> >
> > HTH
> >
> >
> >
> > Will
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Will Stephenson
> >
> > IRC: Bille
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Hui Jin
>


-- 
Best regards,
Hui Jin