[vlc] Re: libhal (and dbus) with vlc

C.Y.M cym at syphir.sytes.net
Sat Nov 27 23:11:47 CET 2004


Sigmund Augdal wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 01:48:37PM -0800, C.Y.M wrote:
> 
>>If I attempt to build vlc with libhal installed, then it appears the 
>>dbus also becomes a dependency (which is fine).  But, now when I start 
>>vlc, I get an error saying that vlc can not connect to the dbus service. 
>> Is there some kind of special dbus configuration required for vlc?  If 
>>not, is there a problem with dbus and vlc?  Is this required?  If I 
>>remove libhal from my system and then build vlc, I dont get the dbus 
>>errors when vlc starts up any longer.
> 
> You need to have the hal service running for vlc to benefit from libhal. btw
> the error is harmless, you can live with it.
> 

Yes, I do have the hal service running along with the dbus service.  But 
even so, the error persists.  Can I disable dbus from the ./configure 
script? ie; --disable-dbus ?

Thanks for your response.

C.Y.M.

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