How to use the Systemd userspace DBus API on Traivis-CI
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I am currently working on a project which involves talking to the
systemd userspace session via the session dbus instance.
After some fiddling around and enabling debug mode on travis via the excellent user support, I came up with the following.
Travis uses VMs that run ubuntu which comes with systemd. To
enable the userspace dbus session, one has to install the
dbus-user-session package. After the installation, it has to be
activated through systemctl --user start dbus. Furthermore one has
to set the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable through
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/$(id -u)/bus.
TL;DR
script:
- sudo apt update
- sudo apt install dbus-user-session
- systemctl --user start dbus
- export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/$(id -u)/bus