"Could not acquire name on session bus"?

Elizar · January 27, 2010, 9:03am

After upgrading from 11.1 to 11.2 my gnome box starts with a message box stating “Could not acquire name on session bus” directly after the (successful) login.

I’m not really sure which applications creates the message box since there is no title on the window.

As far as I can see, the everything else on the desktop is fully operational.

When investigating the problem I found some kind of recursive calls in the process table (ps -axf):

I already crawled the dbus sources as well as the python tools above with no result.

I also noticed nautilus to continuously write the message “(nautilus:2613): GLib-WARNING **: poll(2) failed due to: Das Argument ist ungültig” to ~/.xsession-errors.

My system is running openSUSE 11.2 with the std kernel 2.6.31.8-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-12-15 23:55:40 +0100 x86_64 GNU/Linux.

Can anyone suggest a direction for further investigation at least?

user · January 27, 2010, 10:54am

Elizar wrote:
> After upgrading from 11.1 to 11.2 . . .
> Can anyone suggest a direction for further investigation at least?

if it were my problem i’d confirm the iso’s md5sum again, and
reconfirm the install disk didn’t get a fingerprint/scratch/whatever
after its initial http://tinyurl.com/yajm2aq, and then after being
absolutely SURE the install media is 100% correct, i’d pick “Repair
Installed System” from that same DVD install screen…

oh, you DID upgrade using the accepted/tested/proven method outlined
here http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade right? or, you used a 100% pure
DVD and selected the upgrade option, right? otherwise you are kinda
out there in experiment land and there is really little we might . . .

on the other hand, if your media and install are good, i guess you
might have a bug to report…at least you might drag a net through
that area and see if any bugs there apply…(that is to say: you got a
new one, to me!)

see: http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports#Searching_for_Bugs

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palladium

Elizar · January 27, 2010, 11:32am

I did the md5sum check after downloading the iso. No problems detected there.

Yes, I proceeded as suggested. (I did some upgrades with previous SuSE releases before and made a colorful bunch of experiences - including some really bizarre moments :sarcastic:).

> absolutely SURE the install media is 100% correct, i’d pick “Repair
> Installed System” from that same DVD install screen…

The problem appeared directly after upgrading. How can ‘repair’ change anything about that?

I would really like to narrow the problem further before crying “bug!”.

user · January 27, 2010, 1:42pm

Elizar wrote:
> The problem appeared directly after upgrading. How can ‘repair’ change
> anything about that?

i was just going on the assumption that you had one of these:

faulty install media
damaged install
known bug
something else (perhaps hardware, software, setup, persistent bit
from previous install…who knows, the range of possibilities is
incredible…is a lot easier to take’em step by step)

you solved the first question in your second post…

however, even with good media it is still possible to have an error
introduced at some point in the install process or during the initial
online update before the install is completed (via RAM blip, bad hard
drive bit flip, etc)

while the DVD ‘repair’ script might detect and fix the second i’ve
not known it to make matters worse, so it is usually a fix (win) or no
damage (win); and to my mind a win-win is usually a good thing…but
if you are not willing to take that step until i explain myself (as i
am now) or you wanna continue questioning, you are extremely welcome
to wait for another opinion on how to proceed…

> I would really like to narrow the problem further before crying “bug!”.

which is precisely why i wrote “if your media and install are good”
and “see if any bugs there apply” and did not write “cry ‘bug!’ and
file a report, see: http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports”

i’d say if you wanna ask for help here you should be willing to read
the answers…

on the other hand perhaps you are not a native english user, in which
case i can probably understand your apparent confusion with my attempt
at helping…

i know i should not assume…but, i just took a step i assumed you had
taken before your first post, and found:

http://www.google.com/search?&q=“Could+not+acquire+name+on+session+bus”

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palladium

ixuh · December 28, 2010, 11:44am

Hello, check your ~/.xinitrc file, it may contains “gnome-session”. remove this file or just delete the line can fix it. I guess you tried switching your desk to KDE