Re: gimp vs. dbus uuid

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:54:43 +0200 (CEST)
> Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've built gimp on Mac OS X 10.4.11 from pkgsrc as of two days ago.
> > Launching it gives:
> > 
> >     % gimp foo.png
> >     process 14612: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set
> > up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open
> >     "/Volumes/pkgsrc2/pkg/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file
> > or directory See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this
> > issue. D-Bus not compiled with backtrace support so unable to print a
> > backtrace Abort
> > 
> > RTFMing, it seems that "make instalL" should run
> > 
> >     dbus-uuidgen --ensure
> > 
> > Maybe someone can add this (in a way that it's ran for binary pkgs as 
> > well, please). Else I see this question becoming a FAQ...
> > 
> I found that the easiest thing to do was to run dbus -- there's even a
> sample rc.d file to use.  Since I did that, gimp and evince have been
> happy.  dbus is not listed as an explicit dependency; perhaps it should
> be?  Evince lists it.  (I haven't figured out the exact path, either.)
> 
> I also noticed that there's a gnome option enabled by default; perhaps
> turning it off would solve the problem.


There is a PR about this. What works for me is a dbus installation running 
the dbus-uuidgen. Please see 
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=39517

Any comments on that? Look okay?