Re: cantata crashes on boot

On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 09:46:14PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 03:02:08PM +0200, Erling Westenvik wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 03:48:07PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > On 2018/06/27 13:59, Siva wrote:
> > > > I was wondering if you all had the chance to try running cantata. On
> > > > my system, it crashes as soon as it runs. Is this behavior evident on
> > > > your builds as well?
> > >
> > > What does it say?
> >
> > On my system it doesn't say anything at all. No error messages. No core
> > dumps. Nothing. If /tmp/runtime-<username> doesn't exist, it complains:
> >
> > "QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR points to non-existing path
> > '/tmp/runtime-<username>', please create it with 0700 permissions."
> >
> > But if the directory exists with correct permissions - nothing. If I
> > remove the config directory .config/cantata it doesnt get recreated.
>
> At that point, ktrace/kdump is your friend.

Thanks. ktrace ended with a reference to:

6594 cantata NAMI "/tmp/runtime-erling/bus"

which was non-existing. This lead me to try:

$ dbus-launch cantata

which was crowned with immediate success. After (re)adding:

if [ -x /usr/local/bin/dbus-launch -a -z "${DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS}" ]; then
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
fi

to my .xsession, cantata now works.

I'm getting old and confused. Probably time for me to go back to running
Windows. Sorry for the noise.

Erling