Trying to get mender running on an ARMv7 (v7l).
Cross compiled mender (as well as mender-connect) and it’s working.
However, I cannot get it to connect to DBus. Had to cross compile dbus as well (not available on my box) but dbus seems to be working - e.g., I am able to dbus-send messages to org.desktop.DBus (using the dbus CLI). Mender, however, outputs this error message on startup:
When you use dbus-send, are you using the --system argument? Mender needs to connect to the system bus, which is distinct from the (default) session bus. This stackoverflow post gives a decent description of the two.
I’ve figured this one out
Looks like mender wasn’t able to find the dbus daemon even though I was using --system.
I guess it’s related to the fact that I had to build dbus that does NOT use the stand system folders but only folders under /usr/local and not the standard folders (since, on my target system, the default system folders are all read-only). Anyway, when I set DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS to the correct address (as printed by dbus-daemon when using the --print-address option) it works. Both mender and mender-connect are now able to connect to dbus and remote terminal works.
Hi uishon,
I think I’m having the same issue (dbus on readonly rootfs) and same error message.
Could you explicit what your solution was? Especially, where did you set DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS (I’ve tried setting it in all the systemd service files) and an example of what you set it to would be useful.
Thanks a lot.
