I've gone through all the dbus stuff. Dbus is running, the varibale is properly set with export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket" But I still get: $ dbus-launch beep-media-player-2 Process /usr/libexec/beep-media-player-2-bin received signal 11 ------------------- $ echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS unix:path=/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket $ emerge --info Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i386-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS=[..] LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr cli crypt css cups divx4linux dlloader doc dri dssi dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd examples fame firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml haskell imlib ipv6 isdnlog jack java javascript jpeg ladspa libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre pda pdf pdflib perl png pppd python qt qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection sdl session spell spl sql ssl subtitles svg tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vim vorbis vst win32codecs xml xmms xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_vga video_cards_fglrx video_cards_radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
You may need to start your dbus session, a lot of window managers don't do this automatically. see here some more info: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138101#c7 Try starting the session manually, if it doesn't fix the problem, then reopen this bug, and let us know what desktop you are using (window manager, etc).
