From freebsd-ports  Wed Nov 30 14:11:10 2016
From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco () FreeBSD ! org>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 14:11:10 +0000
To: freebsd-ports
Subject: Re: upgrade to devel/dbus breaks xfce4
Message-Id: <86poldqcqp.fsf () FreeBSD ! org>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=freebsd-ports&m=148051510919973

Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> writes:

> After upgrading deval/dbus to dbus-1.10.12 xfce4 fails to start as a
> non-root user due to being unable to open/write to /etc/machine-id. I
> made a tempurary fix by touching /etc/machine-id and chmod'ing it to
> 777.

If the /etc/machine-id message you're getting looks like

    D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read
    machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or
    directory

it may be misleading as /etc/machine-id is a fallback if other files
were not found before (see bug 213540, for example).

Is dbus running when you try to launch XFCE?
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