SpaceFM using nosh service management

From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <j.deboynepollard-newsgroups_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 19:25:04 +0000 (GMT)

For a wider readership:

>
> I recently had issues where Firefox and the SpaceFM file manager would
> hang when started. Apparently they were calling dbus-launch.
>

If they were calling dbus-launch, that means that they were unable to contact a
Desktop Bus broker and tried to run their own broker in the same session as
themselves. Run system-control status dbus and system-control --user status
dbus to check that the system-wide and your per-user Desktop Bus brokers are
running and to see their logs. Also look at /run/dbus/ and whether you have a
DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS variable pointing at a different place.

I cannot speak to Firefox but a quick check with SpaceFM reveals that, once it
can contact a Desktop Bus broker, it tries to contact and auto-start the
org.freedesktop.UDisks2 server over the system-wide Desktop Bus. So you'll need
a system-wide org.freedesktop.UDisks2 service that runs that server. I've added
such a service bundle for 1.36.
Received on Fri Dec 08 2017 - 19:25:04 UTC