Emacs and DBUS

[Ken Brown]

On 8/27/2010 10:24 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 8/27/2010 3:41 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
>> Ken Brown writes:
>>
>>>> This is also a D-Bus client, which connects to the *same* session bus as
>>>> Emacs did due to $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS. Now you should see the
>>>> signal sent by dbus-monitor in Emacs.
>>>
>>> OK, I started the session bus the right way this time, but I still
>>> didn't see any signal from dbus-monitor in Emacs.  I assume I should
>>> have seen something in the echo area?
>>
>> Yes. You could test whether both Emacs and dbus-monitor use the same bus
>> by reordering the calls:
>>
>> - apply dbus-launch as described
>> - echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
>> - in *another* shell, set $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS to this value, and
>>     start dbus-monitor
>> - start Emacs in the first shell, and load dbus.el. You shall see in
>>     the other shell output from  dbus-monitor, telling that an application
>>     has started. It will also tell you the name of that application, like
>>     ":1.2".
>
> This doesn't happen.  Is it possible that dbus.el doesn't complete its
> initialization because the system bus isn't running?

To partially answer my own question, I tried removing the line

   (dbus-init-bus :system)

from dbus.el.  The good news is that when I then load dbus.el, I do get 
the expected output from dbus-monitor.  The bad news is that Emacs then 
behaves exactly as in the scenario where I start Emacs with the system 
bus running.  Namely, it prints the trace 'xd_add_watch: fd 9' and then 
becomes unresponsive.  All I can do is press C-g if I want to hear bells 
or C-x C-c to exit.

I suspect we can't go any further with this until you return from your 
trip and start debugging.

Ken



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