bug#8019: 23.2; DBUS notification problem

[Michael Albinus]

nyc4bos@aol.com writes:

[Sorry for the late reply; I've seen your report just now]

> When trying to use a dbus-call-method to org.freedesktop.Notifications,
> I am getting a backtrace (see below).
>
> The notification daemon is running and DBUS appears to be connected:
>
> (dbus-get-unique-name :system)
> ":1.1"
>
> (dbus-get-unique-name :session)
> ":1.0"
>
> (dbus-list-known-names :session)
> ("org.freedesktop.DBus" "org.freedesktop.Notifications")
>
> I also see in the echo area:
>
> Signal from bus :session received: (org.freedesktop.Notifications  :1.2)

That means that at least the notifications daemon has answered. Maybe it
is worth to run dbus-monitor in parallel in order to see the messages.

> (I don't know whether or not this issue is also in Emacs 24.0.50.1
> as Cygwin does not currently have a version available compiled from
> the trunk)
>
>  debug(error (dbus-error "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: 
> the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy 
> blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was 
> broken."))

There were some problems with Cygwin Emacs 23.2 and D-Bus, which ought
to be fixed. Do you have a chance to rerun your test with Emacs 23.3?

Best regards, Michael.