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

Sigmund Augdal sigmunau at stud.ntnu.no
Sat Nov 27 23:51:06 CET 2004


On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 02:11:47PM -0800, C.Y.M wrote:
> 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 ?
I don't think so. if you remove libhal headers it will not be built. But as
I said the message is harmless, you can safly ignore it. btw, I don't think
hal is actually running for you, cause then you wouldn't have gotten the
message.

Sigmund


> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> C.Y.M.
> 
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