title: getting run over by d-bus link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/getting-run-over-by-d-bus/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 9013 created: 2014/12/12 14:08:57 created_gmt: 2014/12/12 19:08:57 comment_status: closed post_name: getting-run-over-by-d-bus status: publish post_type: post

getting run over by d-bus

D-bus seemed like such a good idea when it was first proposed, and it was. But even things intended for good can turn to evil. Was in a remote vnc session on my FreeBSD server when Firefox abended with a bunch of ugly error messages, including:

D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or directory

There were lots of other red herrings in there, but the above turned out to be the actual problem. The solution? [code language="bash" gutter="false"] dbus-uuidgen > /etc/machine-id [/code] Nothing is easy any more. Nothing. Thanks to the Graham Bucknell (who has my dream job working in a research lab) for the article that set me straight.

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