Questions tagged [d-bus]
A message bus system, a simple way for inter-process communication. It also helps coordinate process lifecycle.
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How to list all object paths under a dbus service only usign dbus command-line utility?
How can I list the object path under a dbus services using ONLY dbus-send command line utility?
For now, I can only list services:
dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus --type=method_call --...
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How can I filter notifications?
I am using Bodhi Linux, an Ubuntu derivative which, in my experience, for most purposes (but not all) works the same as Ubuntu.
I mean to filter notifications that show up in the desktop (inspired by ...
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custom location for systemd services
Is there a way to tell systemd to search in some path for services files ?
As this manpage state, the search paths are determined during compile time. So I tried to set XDG_DATA_DIRS environment ...
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journalctl --user -u myservice "No journal files were found", for a specific user
Problem:
systemd user units journalctl output display "No journal files were found." This only happens for the one sss user I am testing with, all local users seem to work fine. EDIT: sss ...
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Runing libreoffice from network namespace session?
I am using Ubuntu Mate:
$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION; cat /etc/issue; uname -a;
mate
Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS \n \l
Linux mypc 5.4.0-104-generic #118-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 2 19:02:41 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 ...
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udev rules work but script failed
I'm trying to detect new HDMI and new USB when they are plugged and notify my Rust program.
Here's my rules:
$ /etc/udev/rules.d/80-device-detect.rules
KERNEL=="card0-HDMI-A-1", SUBSYSTEM==&...
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Pass boolean argument to qdbus
I'm trying to use qdbus instead of dbus-send for brevity, but I can't figure out, how to send a boolean argument. It's getting detected as "s".
I'm trying to control an mpris bus and setting ...
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Unable to start a D-Bus server at unix:path [...] Socket name too long
I cross-compiled sssd and D-Bus for ARM architecture. When I start sssd, it crashes because of a wrong dbus path address :
[sssd] [sbus_server_socket_listen] (0x0020): Unable to start a D-Bus server ...
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How to properly open files/applications as root?
When I try to open a file manager as root calling, for instance, sudo thunar the units at left appear with no labels (also some that shouldn't appear, like dev, pts, proc, sys):
If I call sudo dbus-...
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The unknown service dbus-:1.11-org.freedesktop.problems@0.service
What is the weird service? From the logs it looks like it's a slice created by D-Bus at startup.
The January release of Fedora 35
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Gedit preferences manager does not allow interactions
I am trying to install plugins on Gedit v3.36.2 under a clean Ubuntu 20.04 installation.
I'm opening the preferences but I checking/unchecking the various options doesn't work: Gedit doesn't listen!
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Cronjob not working on MX Linux-21
I have set up a cronjob for automatic updates. However, I realized that my cronjob was not functioning. So, this is my cronjob list.
# Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.
#
# Each ...
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Running my desired file manager from within the web browser
I would like to run Nemo instead of Xfce's default file browser, in my browser.
Per Clean way to run proper file manager from Firefox on Linux I tried to do:
$ mkdir --parents ~/.local/share/dbus-1/...
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Run command every time regex is matched, reading from stdin which does not have an EOF
I am attempting to write a BASH script that creates a timestamp (to be written to file) every time a certain string is found within the output of dbus-monitor (parameters specified later in post). The ...
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How to launch a .service file Using Systemd -Dbus interface?
I need to call a service file using Systemd -D bus Interface.
I think using the g_dbus_connection_call_sync() method we can communicate on D-Bus
I need g_dbus_connection_call_sync() to call method ...
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Call XDG portal methods returns no sunch method
I an trying to experiment with xdg portal interface. So of I try to call say methods like open file in org.freefesktop.portal.Desktop using qdbusviewer, it returns no such method. I can see the method ...
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What is responsible for starting the session bus in gdm3?
I'm trying to get gdm3 working on Alpine Linux, but it fails on finding the session bus. Specifically, this assertion fails: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/blob/40.4/src/wayland/meta-wayland....
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How to disable a particular dbus system service under an openrc system
I know that one can override dbus session services in ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services
But it necessarily won't work for system services.
Under openrc, I don't get systemd's systemctl command therfore :
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Run systemctl --user commands as root
I need root to be able to manage systemctl --user units.
Right now I have user1 set up with systemd user units. If the user logs in directly via terminal, GUI, or SSH, they are able to to run all ...
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Gnome (gdm) logs in and immediately locks the console. The logs indiciate "WARNING: Could not get session id for session."
Immediately after login to gdm the screen locks and we get this error in the logs:
gnome-session-binary[25582]: WARNING: Could not get session id for session. Check that logind is properly installed ...
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meld won't start on Cygwin: Complains about the dbus library
I'm trying to get meld to run on Cygwin 64 (just updated - September 2021), on Windows 10. Some relevant package versions:
meld: 3.18.0-1
python3: 3.8.6-1
python36: 3.6.13-2
python2: 2.7.18-4
I'm ...
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OMV5 Booting hang at "Stated update utmp about system runlevel changes"
I'm using openmediavault 5 (NAS) which is based on Debian 10. But when I boot, it hang as described in the title.
I did some reseach to fix it and some of the instructions is:
pressing Alt+F2 or
Ctrl+...
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firefox disappears from playerctl
OS is Debian 10. Firefox version is latest in repos, 78.13.0esr.
Trying to use playerctl with bluetooth buttons to control playback in firefox.
Everything is working fine, I'm away from my desk, ...
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When moving from Debian 10 to 11, Dbus problems appeared
I installed Debian 11, but with the old iptables settings (ALL DROP, even lo), dbus issues a connection error (dbus-launch - no such file or directory). Why does this work on Debian 10 and it does not ...
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Locking Gnome3 from pydbus doesn't return
Trying to lock the screen from python3 script, it works, but the script doesn't exit.
What should I change?
pydbus.SessionBus().get("org.gnome.ScreenSaver","/org/gnome/ScreenSaver")...
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pkexec shows in command line instead of GUI pop-up [closed]
I just hopped to Pop!_os yesterday and pkexec executes in terminal.
It also ran into the error:
polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error....
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Is /org/freedesktop/DBus accessible from a web browser?
We have some homebrewn applications running in top of a Xubuntu 18.04 OS, communicating with each other using D-Bus. The UI part is run in a web browser and web socket is being used for the ...
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Unwanted desktop processes started by systemd at ssh login
When I ssh to my media server, I get a bunch of unrequested processes started up:
/usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
/usr/bin/dbus-broker-launch --scope user
dbus-broker
/usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=...
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How to solve problem building images with Podman: "sd-bus call: Connection reset by peer"?
Building a PostgreSQL image with podman 3.1.2 (previous 3.0.1) results in
sd-bus call: Connection reset by peer
This also happens when executing example from Podman http://docs.podman.io/en/latest/...
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D-Bus in Linux inside a Docker container under Jenkins
As the caption may suggest, this is quite a specific question.
I have a Docker container image based on Debian Stretch, meant to be used as CI pipeline, launched by a Jenkins task.
The software the ...
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Are network-manager's dbus paths stable?
I'm having an issue with configuring network-manager via dbus api.
System: balenaOS on Raspberry Pi 4. balenaOS is a Docker runtime based on the Linux kernel. It says that it is "built using ...
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LXQt Panel has dissapeared after installing Nvidia drivers
(I've seen a few occurrences of a similar issue around so its possible I missed a viable solution in my searches)
I installed Nvidia drivers for my system following the instructions on the Arch Wiki (...
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My D-Bus is completely messed up. How do I fix it, or at the very least fully start from scratch?
I'm running an EndeavourOS (Arch-based) install with i3, and everything is mostly fine except for my D-Bus and some keyring-related issues. However, I'm pretty sure all of these are linked to D-Bus, ...
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Configure dbus to select services depending on current desktop session
I have multiple desktop environments (gnome, kde, xfce, mate) installed. (opensuse leap 15.2, but this does not matter).
When sending notifications while using xfce, the mate-notification daemon shows ...
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Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=“xyz” --binary-syntax --close-stderr”: Child process exited with code 1
I've been getting this error on multiple occasions. When I enter sudo mousepad I get the following output.
[privileged@arched ~]$ sudo mousepad
(mousepad:981): Mousepad-CRITICAL **: 14:12:48.549: ...
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D-Bus on Ubuntu inside a Docker container
I am building a Docker image for running a bunch of background processes that communicate with each other using D-Bus. I am basing the image on Ubuntu Bionic. The system already works on native Debian ...
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Why does PulseAudio need system dbus?
On this single-user FreeBSD desktop, various desktop-components communicate using the user's own dbus-instance.
Yet, pulseaudio also tries to talk to the system-wide dbus (which is not enabled) and, ...
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Where does fprint store fingerprints
I am using fingerprint scanner with python-validity driver. According to fprintd(1), fingerprint data is stored in /var/lib/fprint/ after enrolling a fingerprint with fprintd-enroll. But I have this ...
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Capture sleep, hibernate and wakeup events on Linux
I need to capture these on both laptop and desktop environmetns. Explored 2 options, but unfortunately none of them worked as expected.
DBus works on desktop but these events also need to be captured ...
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How to perform action bound to a keyboard shortcut in Gnome from terminal?
How can I perform an action of any Gnome 3 keyboard shortcut in the terminal?
For example:
I can use dconf-editor to navigate through all keyboard shortcuts and get the dconf path. Let's say:
/org/...
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How to crash/disable/remove bluez interface in Linux?
I am building a bluetooth client for a project and I am looking for a way to crash the dbus bluetooth service offered by bluez, in Linux, prefferably in a controlled, recoverable manner.
Do you have ...
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Why systemd says it's dependency system should be used only sparingly?
From systemd.unit(5) man page:
Note that while systemd offers a flexible dependency system between units it is recommended to use this functionality only sparingly and instead rely on techniques such ...
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DBUS-call failed:GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown
When I call xdg-open pic.png I get this message.
** (ristretto:7580): WARNING **: 13:44:21.730:
DBUS-call failed:GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:
The name org.freedesktop....
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How to prevent upowerd from being launched
Running DM-Less KDE-Plasma-5.19.5 Under a non-systemd Linux-5.4.80 and dbus-1.12.20
I try to get rid of the upowerd daemon.
I understand that upowerd is launched by dbus upon request from whatever ...
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Run services as user without X (systemctl)
I have a small server running a minimal centos8.
I need to create services as a user and would like to use systemctl to do so.
I found I can use systemctl --user to create services without root ...
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mask dbus-activated service (rtkit) via ~/.local/share?
I've been trying to mask a dbus-activated service (rtkit-daemon) via the "standard service dirs" location ~/.local/share/dbus-1/services/. The corresponding system file, which I want to ...
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hostnamectl command causes Failed to create bus connection: No such file or directory
I'm following this guide and I'm running into issues.
https://www.tecmint.com/initial-ubuntu-server-setup-guide/
I am trying to create a linux machine in Ubuntu in wsl2 and then rename it using ...
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a systemd service that starts a dbus service
I'd like to start a python script that uses pydbus to listen for incoming commands via D-Bus on boot, and it needs root permissions. It would be nice if it can be stopped and restarted via systemctl, ...
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How to run qtdbus application as systemd?
Nice to meet you.
I made an application (car<-> controller) that communicates using qtdbus provided by Qt.
see.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtdbus-remotecontrolledcar-example.html
Fortunately, I was ...
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Ubuntu Notification Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.Notifications: No such file or directory (23)
i was working on a python script that displays notification, here's the library I'm using https://www.devdungeon.com/content/desktop-notifications-linux-python
from gi.repository import Notify
Notify....
