Re: Unable to get dbus.el to work with the Gentoo OpenRC 'emacs' service

[Michael Albinus]

Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,

Hi Alexis,

> For a while i've been manually starting an Emacs server on login (via
> my .zlogin), after a D-Bus session has been started (also via my
> .zlogin). However, i recently tried moving to the Gentoo OpenRC
> service, and have run into a problem regarding D-Bus.
>
> The 'emacs' OpenRC service gets started at boot, prior to login. There
> is thus no D-Bus session bus available at that time; the
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS env var isn't set. As noted above, this
> changes once i log in; the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS variable gets
> set. However, the Emacs server still thinks that var is unset.
>
> i had assumed that running:
>
>   emacsclient --eval "(setenv \"DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS\"
>   \"${DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS}\")"
>
> in my WM startup script, to set that var in the environment of the
> server process, would address this.
>
> However, while it addresses some issues - such as Emacs being able to
> open a new tab in an existing Firefox instance - it doesn't seem to
> affect the D-Bus environment in Emacs more generally:
>
>    (dbus-get-unique-name :session)
>    -> (dbus-error "No connection to bus" :session)

I can reproduce it. On my Fedora desktop, I have reproduced it with
running from a shell

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
# unsetenv DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
# emacs -Q
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

If I now eval the following in the *scratch* buffer

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setenv "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" "unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus")
(dbus--init-bus :session)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I get the same error like you

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
-> (dbus-error "No connection to bus" :session)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Debugging Fdbus__init_bus in dbusbind.c shows, that the error happens in
XD_DBUS_VALIDATE_BUS_ADDRESS. This macro calls on C level

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
getenv ("DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

However, the (setenv ...) form above is on Lisp level, and it writes the
change into the internal Lisp variable process-environment. This doesn't
match.

> What am i missing? Or is it simply not possible to 'restart' dbus.el
> from ELisp in order to get it to create a :session bus based on the
> updated value of DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS in the server process
> environment?

The appended patch has fixed this for me. Could you, please, check?

> Alexis.

Best regards, Michael.

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