Re: dbus question

[Eric W. Bates]

On 11/7/2011 9:21 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> "Eric W. Bates"<eric@educompmv.com>  writes:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> > My ISP is using a stock Debian emacs build and has no interest in
> > compiling emacs with dbus disabled. At the same time, this is a
> > headless server and dbus is not running. So every time emacs starts,
> > it barfs with:
> >
> > process 3824: D-bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed
> > to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": ...
> >
> > My question:
> > can d-bus affiliation be disabled via a .emacs setting; or can it only
> > be disable by building emacs WITHOUT_DBUS?
>
> Emacs uses native libdbus, linked statically. I'm not aware of an option
> to suppress connection to the system bus during initialization.
>
> Does Emacs works correctly after that message? In this case, it might be
> sufficient to ignore it simply.

Yah. It all works fine.

I'm simply too dense to not type "emacs &". I then wait 10 minutes for 
the window to appear before I remember that there is text output... [sigh]

> > Thank you for your time.
>
> Best regards, Michael.