Hi Florian, > I'm running bluez-gnome 0.26 and obex-data-server 0.3 from Gentoo. My > Bluetooth setup is running fine, with the exception of OBEX reception. > When I start the bluetooth-applet from a shell, I get the warning > "Bluetooth OBEX start failed: Invalid path". A bit of dbus-monitoring > shows that this error comes from the OBEX server: > > method call sender=:1.96 -> dest=org.openobex > path=/org/openobex/server1; interface=org.openobex.Server; member=Start > string "" > boolean true > boolean true > > error sender=:1.94 -> dest=:1.96 > error_name=org.openobex.Error.InvalidArguments reply_serial=16 > string "Invalid path" > > A look in ods-server.c shows that it's testing for the first parameter > of the method call to be an existing directory, but the bluetooth-applet > is passing an empty string.. and this is because the applet uses > g_get_user_special_dir(G_USER_DIRECTORY_PUBLIC_SHARE) and > g_get_user_special_dir(G_USER_DIRECTORY_DOWNLOAD) to retrieve the > directory names. > > So, I now have one suggestion - see the attached patch, two small error > checks to make debugging this _much_ easier - and one question: the patch has been applied. Thanks. > how is the average user (yes, there are such things now ;-) expected to > know how to set these *!$%& directories? I needed 20 minutes of glib > source diving to find the relevant code - why doesn't Gnome, e.g., set > this automatically? Actually GNOME should do this. However if you kept upgrading GNOME over time from an old installation, it might have missed it. Don't ask me details, but for a clean installation it is set. Regards Marcel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Bluez-devel mailing list Bluez-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bluez-devel
