Gentoo: Thunar crashing

vampirex · 07-11-2008, 10:00 AM

Hello all,

I'm running xfce4 on Gentoo and recently have strange Thunar's behaviour: its crashing app. 10-15 seconds (sometimes almost immediatelly) after opening making me unable to browse files under Thunar.

When running from root in terminal, thunar gives an error:

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Thunar: Failed to connect to the D-BUS session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Segmentation fault

rc-update -s:

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If I remove dbus from runlevel, then thunar works fine (without crashing).

Any idea how to solve that (while keeping dbus) will be appreciated.

Thank you.

Acron_0248 · 07-12-2008, 02:53 AM

Did thunar was compiled with the dbus flag? if so, you could recompile thunar without dbus support, at least it's not a critical part of the package

vampirex · 07-12-2008, 05:14 AM

Thanks for reply, Acron. Yes, it was initially, then I removed dbus flag, recompiled it again but it crashed regardless of that. Strange. Currently, I have dbus removed from runlevel and thunar works fine and will keep this settings as long as everything works fine (pragmatically

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Acron_0248 · 07-12-2008, 06:21 AM

That's odd, I know that thunar uses dbus for internal process but that's when is compiled with such support, maybe is because they way you're running it, I mean, you say that was from the console as root but don't know if using thunar as normal user and leaving dbus gives troubles also

I searched a little bit but didn't find nothing useful, I hope that someone might give you more input on that problem

vampirex · 07-12-2008, 07:27 AM

Actually, I run thunar from console & as root just to see error messages, normally I run it as user from menu, but it makes no difference if dbus is running. That's why I removed dbus (also hal) from runlevel and everything works fine (for the time being

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..and of course, thanks for yr effort to help me.

EDITED:
just as curiosity; when I start hald manually (it starts dbus too), thunar works without crashing.