#585974 collectd: notify_desktop plugin fails to initialize libnotify

Package:
collectd
Source:
collectd
Description:
statistics collection and monitoring daemon
Submitter:
Martin Steigerwald
Date:
2010-06-16 21:12:08 UTC
Severity:
normal
#585974#5
Date:
2010-06-15 10:06:27 UTC
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To:
notify_desktop plugin fails to initialize libnotify1.

shambhala:~> tail -4 /var/log/syslog
Jun 15 12:04:34 shambhala collectd[21814]: notify_desktop: Failed to initialize libnotify.
Jun 15 12:04:34 shambhala collectd[21814]: Initialization of plugin `notify_desktop' failed with status -1. Plugin will be unloaded.
Jun 15 12:04:34 shambhala collectd[21814]: plugin_unregister_read: No such read function: notify_desktop
Jun 15 12:04:34 shambhala collectd[21814]: Initialization complete, entering read-loop.

I tried with and without configuring notify_desktop plugin.

I am using KDE 4.4.4.
#585974#10
Date:
2010-06-15 11:51:20 UTC
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Hi again,

Do you have some kind of notification daemon installed? See, e.g., the
"notification-daemon" package -- I'm sure, KDE provides something
similar. Afaik, the only requirement is that the daemon has to comply
with the "Desktop Notification Specification" [1].

Anyway, that error message should definitely be more verbose.

HTH,
Sebastian

[1] <http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/>
#585974#15
Date:
2010-06-16 21:01:54 UTC
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Am Dienstag 15 Juni 2010 schrieben Sie:

Hi,

I seem to have one installed:

shambhala:~> apt-show-versions | grep notification-daemon
notification-daemon/squeeze uptodate 0.4.0-2

But I am not sure whether it got started.

I have knotify4 running but whether that is compliant to the "Desktop
Notification Specification" I do not know.

shambhala:~> ps aux | grep notif | grep -v grep
root       100  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    May31   0:00
[kacpi_notify]
martin   26944  0.0  0.5 175648 11768 ?        Sl   Jun14   0:08
/usr/bin/knotify4

AFAIR there might be some work underway regarding this for KDE 4.5, but I
am not sure about this.

Same question as for debian bug #585975. Close and report upstream or
retitle here?

Ciao,
#585974#20
Date:
2010-06-16 21:08:40 UTC
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To:
Hi,

Despite the name, this is not a daemon running in the background at all
the times but rather some sort of plugin (or something like that) called
by dbus.

'notify-send' (available in the "libnotify-bin" package) should
basically do the same. I just did a quick test, but that does not seem
to work either. However, I do not have the time to dig into that any
further right now :-/
of it in the Debian BTS ;-) Also, given the above, this might also be a
bug in libnotify, in which case this bug should be cloned and reassigned
to libnotify. Do you have time to have a closer look at that?

TIA,
Sebastian