Hello,
we do not have dbus available on all machine at JSC. This seems not to be a problem for Xpra.
Except, that it filles the logfile with error messages like
^[[33m2017-01-18 16:23:31,519 cannot load dbus helper: No module named dbus^[[0m ^[[31m2017-01-18 16:23:31,534 dbus server error Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/software/jureca/Stage1/software/Xpra/1.0.1-GCCcore-5.4.0-Python-2.7.12-bare/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/server/dbus/dbus_common.py", line 12, in dbus_exception_wrap v = fn() File "/usr/local/software/jureca/Stage1/software/Xpra/1.0.1-GCCcore-5.4.0-Python-2.7.12-bare/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/x11/server.py", line 1349, in make_dbus_server from xpra.x11.dbus.x11_dbus_server import X11_DBUS_Server File "/usr/local/software/jureca/Stage1/software/Xpra/1.0.1-GCCcore-5.4.0-Python-2.7.12-bare/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/x11/dbus/x11_dbus_server.py", line 7, in <module> from xpra.server.dbus.dbus_server import DBUS_Server, INTERFACE File "/usr/local/software/jureca/Stage1/software/Xpra/1.0.1-GCCcore-5.4.0-Python-2.7.12-bare/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/server/dbus/dbus_server.py", line 7, in <module> from xpra.dbus.helper import dbus_to_native, native_to_dbus File "/usr/local/software/jureca/Stage1/software/Xpra/1.0.1-GCCcore-5.4.0-Python-2.7.12-bare/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/dbus/helper.py", line 7, in <module> import dbus ImportError: No module named dbus^[[0m ^[[31m2017-01-18 16:23:31,538 Error setting up server dbus instance:^[[0m ^[[31m2017-01-18 16:23:31,538 No module named dbus^[[0m
The messages are converted to warnings in r14816, this should be included in the next 1.0.x update.
Note: to get rid of most of those warnings, set:
dbus-proxy=no
dbus-control=no
Please close if that works for you.
Thanks. This works.
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1415