Re: Problem with installation of Octave

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

Am 08.01.2019 um 03:49 schrieb Arjen Markus:
> Hello,
>
> when I updated my installation of Cygwin with Octave (4.2.2 to be
> precise) and tried running it (while having an X server running), I
> ran into a problem with D-bus:
>
> 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 See
> the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
>
> Apparently, installing Octave was not enough, I had to install D-bus
> separately. When I had done that, the problem was gone. I guess this
> is an omission in the dependencies for Octave. Note: this problem
> occurred both with and without the GUI that Octave comes with (octave
> --no-gui gave the same error messages).
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Arjen Markus

Hi Arjen,
noted, however I see that dbus shoud be pulled by xinit

Are you using the X server without xinit ?

Regards
Marco




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