kdeinit4 doesn't start: complains about dbus not running

[vlsd (Vlad)]

So, I'm trying to get kdenlive to work, but I can't start kdeinit4. There are only two relevant lines in system.log that appear when I try to run it:

Feb  7 20:23:51 mrcrowley [0x0-0x146146].org.kde.kdeinit4[0]: klauncher(55089) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server. 
Feb  7 20:23:51 mrcrowley [0x0-0x146146].org.kde.kdeinit4[0]: kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!

So, apparently it can't connect to the dbus session. However, I have a session started (as per the instructions given in port notes dbus) and other programs, like Inkscape, connect to it just fine. Am I missing something?

[ddennedy (Dan Dennedy)]

I have had a lot of problems getting dbus-session to run, but today I ran the following and it is working now:

launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist

[vlsd (Vlad)]

Replying to dan@…:

I have had a lot of problems getting dbus-session to run, but today I ran the following and it is working now:

launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist

Tried that, it does not work. Also, I know that dbus IS running, because when I do a ps ax |grep dbus I get the following:

80701   ??  Ss     0:00.00 /opt/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork
80834 s003  R+     0:00.00 grep --color=always dbus

Also tried updating MacPorts and definitions and trying to install everything again. I now get this message

klauncher(94397) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server.                                              
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
kded(94405): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server:  "Failed to connect to socket /tmp/launch-dNLMHB/unix_domain_listener: Connection refused" 

[michaelld (Michael Dickens)]

Cc Me!

[Liontooth (David Liontooth)]

I'm getting the same behavior:

$ ps x | grep dbus
27267   ??  S      0:00.01 /opt/local/bin/dbus-daemon --nofork --session

$ kioclient ls 'fish://user@host:22/home/user/'
klauncher(27310) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server. 
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
kioclient(27305): couldn't create slave: "Cannot talk to klauncher: The name org.kde.klauncher was not provided by any .service files" 
kdeinit4: Shutting down running client.

Konqueror fails with "Cannot Initiate the fish Protocol. Technical Reason: Unable to Launch Process"

Cheers, Dave

[NicosPavlov]

Did you indeed start the dbus agent and helper agent for KDE4 as indicated in the notes? Do both return with "*: service already loaded"?

  Don't forget that dbus needs to be started as the local user (not with sudo) before any KDE programs will launch.
  To start it run the following command:
   launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
  An agent must be started to maintain KDE's desktop file system configuration cache.
  To start it run the following command:
   launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.macports.kdecache.plist