From: "Eric W. Bates" <eric@educompmv.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dbus question
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:44:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB7EECA.7090301@educompmv.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hb2gf1ya.fsf@gmx.de>
On 11/7/2011 9:21 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> "Eric W. Bates"<eric@educompmv.com> writes:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
>> My ISP is using a stock Debian emacs build and has no interest in
>> compiling emacs with dbus disabled. At the same time, this is a
>> headless server and dbus is not running. So every time emacs starts,
>> it barfs with:
>>
>> process 3824: D-bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed
>> to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": ...
>>
>> My question:
>> can d-bus affiliation be disabled via a .emacs setting; or can it only
>> be disable by building emacs WITHOUT_DBUS?
>
> Emacs uses native libdbus, linked statically. I'm not aware of an option
> to suppress connection to the system bus during initialization.
>
> Does Emacs works correctly after that message? In this case, it might be
> sufficient to ignore it simply.
Yah. It all works fine.
I'm simply too dense to not type "emacs &". I then wait 10 minutes for
the window to appear before I remember that there is text output... [sigh]
>> Thank you for your time.
>
> Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-07 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-04 20:56 dbus question Eric W. Bates
2011-11-07 14:21 ` Michael Albinus
2011-11-07 14:44 ` Eric W. Bates [this message]
2011-11-07 14:57 ` Michael Albinus
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