Description of problem: /usr/bin/dbus-launch utility missing, even GNOME requires it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC6 final How reproducible: Cannot say. Got this with one server, that has been upgraded from RH9-FC1-FC2-FC3-FC4-FC5 and now to FC6. FC5 worked fine without the package. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade FC5 to FC6 2. Start GNOME session 3. You see an error message when logging in or when opening System - Preferences Mouse or Keyboard Actual results: Got following error message in a GNOME window: *** There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The last error was: Unable to determine the address of the message bus (try 'man dbus-launch' and 'man dbus-daemon' for help) GNOME will still try restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. Expected results: GNOME session should open without any annoying error messages. Additional info: RPM package dbus was installed. For example man page of dbus-launch is included there, but dbus-launch utility is not. There's RPM package dbus-x11 including dbus-launch utilitu. That RPM must be installed in a FC6 system to get GNOME settings working properly. But no dependency requires that package to be installed: # rpm -qi dbus-x11 --whatrequires no package requires dbus-x11 After installing it manually 'yum install dbus-x11' GNOME worked beautifully. Checked upgrade.log and did not find any install/upgrade problems about dbus-x11. I guess it was not there when running FC5 and no dependency reuired it to be installed, even GNOME actually needs it.
This really isn't a dbus issue. I'm not sure where the requirement should go though. Mostlikely any app that absolutely needs the session bus.
/usr/bin/dbus-launch is called from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common which belongs to $ rpm -qf /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.2-12.fc6 So, is it xorg-x11-xinit that should have dependency for dbus-x11 package? There's no dbus-x11 selection aailable for Component field of FC6 Bugzilla.
i think dbus-x11 should be added to gnome-session rpm as a requirement.
This has been fixed in newer releases: [mclasen@localhost ~]$ rpm -q --whatrequires dbus-x11 control-center-2.20.0-1.fc8 gnome-power-manager-2.20.0-1.fc8 gnome-session-2.20.0-2.fc8 system-config-printer-0.7.74.3-1.fc8
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