It appears that Spotify 1.0.64 ebuild no longer supports dbus. Not sure if this is strictly related to the ebuild, or Spotify itself. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause Actual Results: Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify was not provided by any .service files Expected Results: Music in Spotify is paused Portage 2.3.11 (python 2.7.14-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-6.4.0, glibc-2.25-r7, 4.12.10-gentoo-agares x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.12.10-gentoo-agares-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-5200U_CPU_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.4.1 KiB Mem: 8062252 total, 2027052 free KiB Swap: 524284 total, 285692 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 08 Oct 2017 07:30:02 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: fa156bc7255f384731084f0d0d52944dd59ea871 sh bash 4.4_p12 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.28.1 p1.0) 2.28.1 app-shells/bash: 4.4_p12::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r3::gentoo 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I just ran it in my install and it worked fine. these are the dbus packages I have installed [I] dev-libs/dbus-glib (0.108{xpak}@06/28/2017): D-Bus bindings for glib [I] dev-python/dbus-python (1.2.4{xpak}@06/28/2017): Python bindings for the D-Bus messagebus [I] dev-qt/qtdbus (5.7.1(5){xpak}@07/05/2017): Qt5 module for inter-process communication over the D-Bus protocol [I] dev-util/gdbus-codegen (2.50.3{xpak}@04/01/2017): GDBus code and documentation generator [I] sys-apps/dbus (1.10.18{xpak}@05/04/2017): A message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to each other
This is my list of dbus packages: [IP-] [ ] dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.108:0 [IP-] [ ] dev-python/dbus-python-1.2.4:0 [IP-] [ ] dev-qt/qtdbus-4.8.7:4 [IP-] [ ] dev-qt/qtdbus-5.9.2:5/5.9 [IP-] [ ] dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.52.3:0 [IP-] [ ] sys-apps/dbus-1.10.24:0 When I start Spotify from the terminal I get the following messages: /opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify: /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify) /opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify: /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify) /opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify: /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify) /opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify: /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by /opt/spotify/spotify-client/spotify) /proc/self/exe: /usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /proc/self/exe) /proc/self/exe: /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0: no version information available (required by /proc/self/exe) I have tried removing ~/.config/spotify, rebuilding dbus-python and dbus. I checked with dbus-monitor, but nothing shows up when I restart Spotify.
I've got the same issue. Additionally to the usual library errors i also get the following error: (spotify:10450): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_connection_send_message: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed Normally I'm used to ignoring these GTK errors, but it might be related in this case.
as part of my .xprofile I have this eval $(dbus-launch --auto-syntax) You could try running that in a shell before running spotify in the same shell to see if that works for you. I'm using awesomewm, which doesn't set stuff like that up automatically.
Okay, after adding that line to my .xinitrc it started working. Apparently some previous version was starting automatically (or previous version of i3 was starting it). Thanks for your help and sorry for bugging you :)
I'm going to close this as a wontfix as it's has to do with the user setup of their DE.
