From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dbus question Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:21:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87hb2gf1ya.fsf@gmx.de> References: <4EB45190.2090808@educompmv.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1320676148 26070 80.91.229.12 (7 Nov 2011 14:29:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 14:29:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Eric W. Bates" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 07 15:29:01 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RNQC4-0004Gw-Vm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:29:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36642 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNQ53-0005xA-NC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:21:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42007) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNQ4v-0005vO-PJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:21:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNQ4m-0003rQ-Us for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:21:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:42902) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RNQ4m-0003r9-6T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:21:28 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Nov 2011 14:21:25 -0000 Original-Received: from p57BB98A4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO detlef.gmx.de) [87.187.152.164] by mail.gmx.net (mp007) with SMTP; 07 Nov 2011 15:21:25 +0100 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/DbJ5oSFjD1G05aMaDlCs7Z4PWhixravBTvDct5w AFz8cLczX8F9Vh In-Reply-To: <4EB45190.2090808@educompmv.com> (Eric W. Bates's message of "Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:56:48 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 213.165.64.23 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82783 Archived-At: "Eric W. Bates" 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. > Thank you for your time. Best regards, Michael.