Apps that use D-Bus don't work over SSH

boutil from ubuntu forums says

export `dbus-launch`

might fix the problem. More details on this would be helpful.

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What further information do you need?

i misinterpreted your quote of boutil in the post above. sorry.

ps: check if your problem is related to bug 221363

I don't think that's related. This is about X forwarding, not NX.

I've since found this, which makes me think that D-Bus doesn't even work like this:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusRemote

D-Bus is not intended to work over SSH.

This actually requires a LOT more thought than you realise. For example, let's say you are running banshee on the remote box.

Should that banshee see the attached iPods on the remote box, or on the local box?

If on the remote box, you actually don't _want_ D-Bus forwarded over ssh - you want to know about the system bus at the remote end, and maybe a session bus just for your ssh session?

If on the local box, you now have to deal with the fact the devices are on the local system - so you need something like nbd to forward them across ssh as well.

This Is Not A Simple Problem

"Should that banshee see the attached iPods on the remote box, or on the local box?"

Both, obviously.

Since there are already plans to fix this, I think the "Won't Fix" is inappropriate.

On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 13:59 +0000, Endolith wrote:

> Since there are already plans to fix this, I think the "Won't Fix" is
> inappropriate.
>
Nobody has any plans to fix this.

Scott
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