[CentOS] Pidgin problem on 5.2

[William L. Maltby]

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 14:50 -0400, fred smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:28:39AM -0700, Rodney Myers wrote:
> > On Jun 30, 2008, at 9:16 AM, fred smith wrote:
> > 
> > >On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:06:28AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  
> > >wrote:
> > >>On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 09:33 -0400, fred smith wrote:
> > >>>Suggestions welcome.
> > >><snip>

> > Can you attempt to start it from the shell, and let us know what  
> > happens?
> 
> My original posting contained that:
> 
> $ pidgin
> libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error.
>   (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any service files

I've not looked. But if you have run makewhatis, then apropos or "man -k
dbus" lists some man pages. Maybe something is buried in there. I have
no guess as to which, if any, of the below are useful.

$ man -k dbus
dbus                (rpm) - D-BUS message bus
dbus-cleanup-sockets (1)  - clean up leftover sockets in a directory
dbus-daemon          (1)  - Message bus daemon
dbus-glib           (rpm) - GLib bindings for D-Bus
dbus-launch          (1)  - Utility to start a message bus from a shell
script
dbus-monitor         (1)  - debug probe to print message bus messages
dbus-python         (rpm) - D-Bus Python Bindings
dbus-send            (1)  - Send a message to a message bus
dbus-uuidgen         (1)  - Utility to generate UUIDs
dbus-x11            (rpm) - X11-requiring add-ons for D-BUS

> <snip sig stuff>

HTH
-- 
Bill