Xpra: Ticket #1201: Fresh Fedora 23 install of 0.18.0 xpra getting Error setting up dbus server

Not sure if this is a dependency that is really required (I guess I could've tried connecting to a server after the exit, not sure if the dbus forwarder is required or just a nice feature), but I'm getting the following error:

2016-05-18 12:37:41,129 Warning: failed to load or register our dbus notifications forwarder:
2016-05-18 12:37:41,129  org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message
2016-05-18 12:37:41,129  if you do not have a dedicated dbus session for this xpra instance,
2016-05-18 12:37:41,130  use the 'notifications=no' option
2016-05-18 12:37:41,132 cannot load dbus helper: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message
2016-05-18 12:37:41,141 Error setting up our dbus server:
2016-05-18 12:37:41,141  org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message

... until I install dbus-x11. Just thought it worth a mention while you're messing with packaging.



Thu, 19 May 2016 03:48:50 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner changed

Good catch. Not sure how you figured out that you needed dbus-x11 as it's really not obvious from the generic looking error messages. r12609 fixes this and will be backported since the new automatic dbus-launch was included in 0.17: #1104.


Fri, 20 May 2016 18:58:09 GMT - alas:

I think I found the package with some deductive googling, once I had the name it installed very easily.

Just tried to confirm the fix, only to realize the rpm I'd installed was r12608...


Sat, 21 May 2016 03:09:06 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set

Backport to v0.17.x in r12619. Closing.


Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:52:22 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

Milestone renamed


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:17:45 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1201