# Remote terminal not working

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/remote-terminal-not-working/5537>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** mender-client, mender-connect, dbus\
**Created:** [January 12, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/remote-terminal-not-working/5537 "2023-01-12T13:23:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![nrmmota](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/nrmmota/32/1811_2.png) [@nrmmota](https://hub.mender.io/u/nrmmota)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/remote-terminal-not-working/5537/1 "2023-01-12T13:23:31Z")

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Hi,  
Currently using Yocto and Mender with kirkstone branch.  
I’ve installed mender-connect successfully, however, mender-client doesn’t have DBus enabled by default. DBus API is not available either on the /usr/share/dbus-1/ folder. Authentication and UpdateManager confs are not available on my rootfs.

I’ve tried to enable manually on the mender.conf and included the confs myself. The mender-client fails to start with the following message:  
“DBus API support not available, but DBus is enabled: no D-Bus interface available”

Not sure how to enable dbus on the mender-client recipe.  
What am I missing?

Best regards,  
Nuno

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**Author:** ![TheYoctoJester](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/theyoctojester/32/1444_2.png) [@TheYoctoJester](https://hub.mender.io/u/TheYoctoJester)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2023, 11:43am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/remote-terminal-not-working/5537/2 "2023-01-13T11:43:04Z")

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Hi @nrmmota,

Thanks for getting in touch. Thats strange because given the `meta-mender-core` and possibly `meta-mender-demo` layers in the build it should work out of the box. Which board are you using, respectively how does your `local.conf` look like?

Greetz,  
Josef

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**Author:** ![nrmmota](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/nrmmota/32/1811_2.png) [@nrmmota](https://hub.mender.io/u/nrmmota)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 10:23am UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/remote-terminal-not-working/5537/3 "2023-01-16T10:23:12Z")

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Hi,  
Thank you for your feedback.  
I’ve picked up some things from demo, but I’m not including it.

This is mymachine conf

```auto
# We are reusing genericx86-64
MACHINEOVERRIDES =. "genericx86-64:"
require conf/machine/genericx86-64.conf

# But we need to force sse3 compatibility
DEFAULTTUNE="core2-64"

# We need to force systemd and not sysvinit (it fails on sysvinit for the core2 stuff)
DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " systemd"
SERIAL_CONSOLES_CHECK_forcevariable = ""
DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED += "sysvinit"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_initscripts = "systemd-compat-units"

```

mydistro.conf

```auto
DISTROOVERRIDES =. "poky:"
require conf/distro/poky.conf

DISTRO_NAME="GSGateway"
DISTRO_VERSION="1.2"
DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " security pam"

MENDER_DEVICE_TYPE="gsgatewaycore2"
MENDER_DEMO_HOST_IP_ADDRESS="10.0.0.108"

# One of the mandatory features
IMAGE_FEATURES += "read-only-rootfs"

MENDER_FEATURES_ENABLE:append = "mender-grub mender-bios mender-image mender-image-sd"
#MENDER_FEATURES_DISABLE:append = "mender-image-uefi"
#INHERIT += "mender-full-bios"
MENDER_ARTIFACT_NAME ?= "GS_Gateway_2.1"
MENDER_STORAGE_DEVICE = "/dev/sda"
#MENDER_STORAGE_TOTAL_SIZE_MB = "14352"
#MENDER_DATA_PART_SIZE_MB = "10240"
MENDER_STORAGE_TOTAL_SIZE_MB = "4352"
MENDER_DATA_PART_SIZE_MB = "240"
ARTIFACTIMG_FSTYPE = "ext4"

# wic fails to build with readonly rootfs
IMAGE_FSTYPES:remove = "wic wic.bmap"
#IMAGE_FSTYPES += "wic.vmdk"

# Extra packages that we need
IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " \
                    openssh \
                    openssh-sftp \
                    openssh-sftp-server \
                    lsof \
                    datafs-overlay \
                    rootfs-overlay \
                    vim \
                    kernel-module-bonding \
                    tcpdump \
                    mtr \
                    autossh \
                    dbus \
                    mender-client \
                    mender-server-certificate \
                    mender-connect \
"
# Some of those packages have commercial licenses
LICENSE_FLAGS_ACCEPTED="commercial"

# Generic stuff for QEMU (although runqemu qemux86-64 still doesn't load mount points properly)
QB_SYSTEM_NAME = "qemu-system-x86_64"
EXTRA_IMAGEDEPENDS += "qemu-system-native qemu-helper-native"

# Download path...
DL_DIR = "/opt/storage/yoctodownloads"

```

Local.conf is default plus:

```auto
DISTRO="mydistro"
MACHINE="mymachine"

```

All the layers

```auto
layer path priority
==========================================================================
meta /opt/storage/nrmstuff/yocto/poky/meta 5
meta-poky /opt/storage/nrmstuff/yocto/poky/meta-poky 5
meta-yocto-bsp /opt/storage/nrmstuff/yocto/poky/meta-yocto-bsp 5
meta-mender-core /opt/storage/nrmstuff/yocto/poky/meta-mender/meta-mender-core 6
meta-oe /opt/storage/nrmstuff/yocto/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe 5
meta-python /opt/storage/nrmstuff/yocto/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-python 5
meta-multimedia /opt/storage/nrmstuff/yocto/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia 5
meta-mymeta /opt/storage/nrmstuff/yocto/poky/meta-mymeta 6
meta-webserver /opt/storage/nrmstuff/yocto/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-webserver 5
meta-networking /opt/storage/nrmstuff/yocto/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-networking 5
meta-perl /opt/storage/nrmstuff/yocto/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-perl 5

```

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**Author:** ![nrmmota](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/nrmmota/32/1811_2.png) [@nrmmota](https://hub.mender.io/u/nrmmota)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 12:35pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/remote-terminal-not-working/5537/4 "2023-01-19T12:35:29Z")

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I’ve managed to understand what was missing.

Adding `mender-client` to the `IMAGE_INSTALL` doesn’t trigger the dbus part.  
The dbus part is triggered when `mender-client-install` is added to the `MENDER_FEATURES_ENABLE:append`

The recipe source is here.  
\_MENDER\_PACKAGECONFIG\_DEFAULT = “${@mender\_feature\_is\_enabled(“mender-client-install”, “dbus modules inventory-network-scripts”, “”, d)}”

Hope this helps others that eventually stumble upon this issue.

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**Author:** ![TheYoctoJester](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/theyoctojester/32/1444_2.png) [@TheYoctoJester](https://hub.mender.io/u/TheYoctoJester)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/remote-terminal-not-working/5537/5 "2023-01-19T12:39:13Z")

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Thanks a lot for sharing! @nrmmota