dbus: can't start dbus-session launchagent

[torstensteinert@…]

I installed kdenlive on a fresh MacBook-Pro. After some problems with atlas it finished the install. According to ​http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/downloading-and-installing-kdenlive/pre-compiled-packages/mac-os-x-packages-macports I entered the post install commands. The second-to-last one failed with the error "Socket is not connected". Here is the output:

bash-3.2$ sudo chown -R torsten ~/Library/Preferences/KDE
bash-3.2$ sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
launchctl: Dubious ownership on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
nothing found to load
bash-3.2$ sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.dbus-system.plist 
org.freedesktop.dbus-system: Already loaded
bash-3.2$ sudo chown torsten /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist 
bash-3.2$ launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist 
Bug: launchctl.c:2325 (23930):13: (dbfd = open(g_job_overrides_db_path, O_RDONLY | O_EXLOCK | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR)) != -1
launch_msg(): Socket is not connected

[mtalexander (Mike Alexander)]

I don't know if this is the entire problem since I've never tried to install kdenlive, but you don't want "sudo" on the second command. You want to start the session daemon as yourself, not as root:

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

[ddennedy (Dan Dennedy)]

You can see later in his list of commands he did launch as user, but it failed with error. However, as kdenlive port maintainer, I wish I were so lucky as to even receive an error. I got to hear because for most if 2011 now I have been unable to get dbus --session to launch (ps shows only --system) and I am still trying despite having rebuilt dbus several times over the months :-(

[ddennedy (Dan Dennedy)]

Cc Me!

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

Apologies for not acknowledging this earlier.
Is it still an issue?

[ddennedy (Dan Dennedy)]

This has not been an issue for me for a couple of years now.

[MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)]

Somewhere along the way, the problem seems to have been fixed.