On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 22:29, geo.inbox.ignored <geo.inbox.ignored at ...> wrote: > > > greetings. > > while using rsync to copy /root/* from tower box to laptop computer, i > accidentally over wrote .dbus/sessions-bus/[fn] on laptop computer. > > ran extensive web search, including; > > http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ > > to find how to replace or recreate file, only to find everything about > what it does and why. > > question is, how do i recreate, short of re-installing from .iso? > > have not rebooted laptop system. > > need help in a BIG way. > > any and all help/suggestions greatly appreciated. > > tia. AFAICT, the text file in ~/.dbus/sessions-bus/ is named after the machine-id and contains a few lines similar to: [code] # This file allows processes on the machine with id [[your-machine-id-here]] using # display :0.0 to find the D-Bus session bus with the below address. # If the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable is set, it will # be used rather than this file. # See "man dbus-launch" for more details. DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-[[random-string-here]],guid=[[your-personal-dbus-session-adress]] DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=[[the pid of your personal dbus instance]] DBUS_SESSION_BUS_WINDOWID=[[your top-most window id]] [/code] as neither this file nor the directories ~/.dbus/sessions-bus/ are in /etc/skeleton, I must assume that they are recreated at user-login, if they are missing or contain invalid information. IOW, remove the file, login, and it should get recreated. - Yamaban.