Re: [Gaim-devel] dbus

[Mark D. <ma...@ki...>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:52:47 -0400, Eric Polino wrote
> i've been trying to figure out why the package installed version of
> gaim-text works fine on my box, but the svn version that i have
> doesn't seem to want to work as well.  to be more specific, the
> version i'm running directly from the directory where i've been
> fiddling with the source i've received via svn doesn't want to 
> connect to any of my accounts.
> 
> attached you will find a copy of the .error that it generates.  i've
> seem to have narrowed it down  to where it's breaking, but i have no
> idea why, possibly because i'm not sure what dbus is and/or how it
> works.  it seems to be related to managing the network connections.
> when i try to connect to an account it fails on an assertion saying
> that presence != NULL.  i've pinpointed where this error is being
> thrown.  line 1369 in libgaim/account.c on the call to
> gaim_presence_is_online(account->presence).  i'm not sure why it's
> like that, or even what this variable is for, where it's supposed to
> be sent.
> 
> the output from my .error file seems to shed a bit of light.  the
> first line complaining about being unable to connect reguarding some
> dbus thing, seems to suggest i might have a dbus issue.  anyone know
> how this might be related.  also, the 281 lines of assertion errors
> status != NULL in gaim_presence_set_status_active() seem to be 
> related to my presence assertion issue from above.  i'll continue 
> looking, but if anyone has any ideas, i'd love to hear them.

It sounds like Gaim doesn't know where to find your protocol plugins, and you
just need to 'make install'.  If you don't want to install to a system-wide
directory, you can pass --prefix=/home/me/gaim-svn to configure or autogen.sh.

-Mark