[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#835846: cinnamon-session: don't run dbus-launch if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus is available
Simon McVittie
smcv at debian.org
Sun Aug 28 18:16:18 UTC 2016
Source: cinnamon-session
Version: 3.0.1-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
User: dbus at packages.debian.org
Usertags: dbus-launch dbus-launch-unless-dsba
As described in <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00554.html>
I'm trying to reduce how much dbus-launch is used in Debian.
cinnamon-session has code inherited from gnome-session that explicitly
runs dbus-launch if DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS isn't set.
The major D-Bus implementations (libdbus, GDBus, sd-bus) now have a
fallback code path, before trying X11 autolaunch, when
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is unset: if XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set, and
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus exists, is a socket and is owned by the
process's uid, then they will use it. In particular, dbus-user-session
sets up that situation.
For the moment, dbus-user-session does make sure DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
is set, to be nice to packages that don't have this fallback path.
However, I'd like to avoid requiring that in future, by adapting
the dbus-launch code in gnome-session and its forks to look for
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/bus before trying dbus-launch.
It's probably best if this happens in gnome-session first (I'll
open the upstream bug after I've finished with this MBF), then gets
cherry-picked into the GNOME derivatives like Cinnamon.
Thanks,
S
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