dbus_bus_request_name (): Connections are not allowed to own the service

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Mandy picture Mandy · Dec 30, 2010 · Viewed 26.1k times · Source

I built a root filesystem on arm. It should run dbus-daemon and avahi-daemon, but when I try to run avahi-daemon 

$ dbus-daemon --system
$ avahi-daemon

I get this message: 

Found user 'avahi' (UID 4) and group 'avahi' (GID 4).
Successfully dropped root privileges.
avahi-daemon 0.6.28 starting up.
WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns! 
dbus_bus_request_name(): Connection ":1.0" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.Avahi" due to security policies in the configuration file
WARNING: Failed to contact D-Bus daemon.
avahi-daemon 0.6.28 exiting.

What is wrong? Is it about dbus configuration ?

Answer

gak picture gak · Sep 1, 2015

In my case I simply had to restart the dbus service.

This probably was because avahi inserted a dbus config file (/etc/dbus-1/system.d/avahi-dbus.conf) which wasn't detected automatically.

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