Re: [Bluez-users] hcid not working - bluez 3.9

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Sumeet,

> I have been trying to bring up bluez-utils-3.9 and hcid is not working. It 
> says 
> 
> [root@dlhl0330 tools]# hcid -n
> hcid[29560]: Bluetooth HCI daemon
> hcid[29560]: Can't connect to system message bus: Failed to connect to 
> socket /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
> hcid[29560]: Unable to get on D-Bus
> 
> I have looked into the mailing list and followed the mentioned procedure. I 
> have installed dbus-0.61 and started the system bus by calling dbus-launch
> 
> [root@dlhl0330 dbus]# dbus-launch
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS='unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-
> BcAG8pbfI2,guid=adea0b46b6c8607cd9bc4162ffe90200';
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=29606;
> [root@dlhl0330 dbus]#
> 
> I can see the dbus-daemon running when is do ps -e
> 
> system_bus_socket is present at the location /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket 
> Is there any way I can configure hcid to take the system_bus_socket 
> from /var/run/dbus instead of /usr/local/var/run/dbus

the session bus is not the same as the system bus. You need a running
system bus for hcid. And normally your distribution ensures that it is
setup correctly.

Regards

Marcel



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