sync-engine failing to start

[Peter A. Henning]

Hi,

running OpenSuSE 11.0 on several machines, just switched to KDE 4.1.3 from KDE
3.

While synce was running nicely (with my ASUS myPAL 639 PDA), nowadays I cannot
even get a connection on either of these machines. The effects are identical
on either of these computers

When starting sync-kpm as user, it just reports some problems with sync-
engine, no details in the log.

When starting synce-kpm as root, I get

--------------------------------------- SNIP ---------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/synce-kpm", line 26, in <module>
    synceKPM.main.main()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/synceKPM/main.py", line 72, in main
    synceKPM.main_dataserver.main(False)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/synceKPM/main_dataserver.py", line
47, in main
    session_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 217, in
__new__
    mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 106, in
__new__
    bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 125, in __new__
    bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: 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.
--------------------------------------- SNAP ------------------------------

when starting sync-engine directly as root, the same

--------------------------------------- SNIP ---------------------------
SynCE sync-engine starting up
2009-10-10 05:35:29,614 DEBUG syncengine : running main loop
2009-10-10 05:35:29,615 DEBUG syncengine : creating SyncEngine object
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sync-engine", line 149, in <module>
    engine = SyncEngine(configObj,mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/SyncEngine/kernel.py", line 71, in
__init__
    dbus.service.Object.__init__(self,
dbus.service.BusName(DBUS_SYNCENGINE_BUSNAME, bus=dbus.SessionBus()),
DBUS_SYNCENGINE_OBJPATH)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 217, in
__new__
    mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 106, in
__new__
    bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 125, in __new__
    bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: 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.

--------------------------------------- SNAP ------------------------------

So everything hints towards a dbus problem.

Has anybody got an idea how to solve this ?

Regards

--
Peter Henning



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[Mark Ellis]

On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 05:44 +0200, Peter A. Henning wrote:

> Hi,
>
> running OpenSuSE 11.0 on several machines, just switched to KDE 4.1.3 from KDE
> 3.
>
> While synce was running nicely (with my ASUS myPAL 639 PDA), nowadays I cannot
> even get a connection on either of these machines. The effects are identical
> on either of these computers
>
> When starting sync-kpm as user, it just reports some problems with sync-
> engine, no details in the log.
>
> When starting synce-kpm as root, I get
>
> --------------------------------------- SNIP ---------------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/synce-kpm", line 26, in <module>
>     synceKPM.main.main()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/synceKPM/main.py", line 72, in main
>     synceKPM.main_dataserver.main(False)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/synceKPM/main_dataserver.py", line
> 47, in main
>     session_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 217, in
> __new__
>     mainloop=mainloop)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 106, in
> __new__
>     bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 125, in __new__
>     bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: 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.
> --------------------------------------- SNAP ------------------------------
>
> when starting sync-engine directly as root, the same
>
> --------------------------------------- SNIP ---------------------------
> SynCE sync-engine starting up
> 2009-10-10 05:35:29,614 DEBUG syncengine : running main loop
> 2009-10-10 05:35:29,615 DEBUG syncengine : creating SyncEngine object
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/sync-engine", line 149, in <module>
>     engine = SyncEngine(configObj,mainloop)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/SyncEngine/kernel.py", line 71, in
> __init__
>     dbus.service.Object.__init__(self,
> dbus.service.BusName(DBUS_SYNCENGINE_BUSNAME, bus=dbus.SessionBus()),
> DBUS_SYNCENGINE_OBJPATH)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 217, in
> __new__
>     mainloop=mainloop)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 106, in
> __new__
>     bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 125, in __new__
>     bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: 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.
>
> --------------------------------------- SNAP ------------------------------
>
> So everything hints towards a dbus problem.
>
> Has anybody got an idea how to solve this ?
>

Not especially, could be a large number of things. Is dbus even
running ? Check with something like

ps ax|grep dbus

Mark


> Regards
>


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