Unable to connect to the D-Bus system bus on FreeBSD

[0mp]

Hi,

I've recently packaged signal-cli for FreeBSD (https://www.freshports.org/net-im/signal-cli/).

The functionalities which do not require D-Bus to be involved are working fine (thanks your this wonderful piece of software BTW).

I cannot get signal-cli to authenticate against the dbus service running on my system, however. I've tried to connect to both the system bus and to the user one (I am not about the proper naming of things, D-Bus development/debugging is rather new to me).

I've started collecting my notes in a separate repo (https://github.com/0mp/freebsd-ports-signal-cli/) so that other interested developers could join the debugging efforts.

Currently, I am stuck with debugging at authentication against the system bus. Here's a snippet of the debug logs (the full log is in the repo I linked to earlier):

[org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport$SASL.auth()] AUTH state: 0
[org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport$SASL.send()] sending: AUTH

[org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport$SASL.auth()] AUTH state: 1
[org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport$SASL.receive()] received: REJECTED EXTERNAL
[org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport$SASL$Command.<init>()] Creating command from: [REJECTED, EXTERNAL]
[org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport$SASL$Command.<init>()] Created command: Command(3, 1, null, null)
[org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport$SASL.send()] sending: AUTH EXTERNAL 323438

[org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport$SASL.auth()] AUTH state: 1
[org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport$SASL.receive()] received: REJECTED EXTERNAL
[org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport$SASL$Command.<init>()] Creating command from: [REJECTED, EXTERNAL]
[org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport$SASL$Command.<init>()] Created command: Command(3, 1, null, null)
[org.freedesktop.dbus.DBusConnection.<init>()] java.io.IOException: Failed to auth
    at org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport.connect(Unknown Source)
    at org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at org.freedesktop.dbus.DBusConnection.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at org.freedesktop.dbus.DBusConnection.getConnection(Unknown Source)
    at org.asamk.signal.commands.DaemonCommand.handleCommand(DaemonCommand.java:50)
    at org.asamk.signal.Main.handleCommands(Main.java:126)
    at org.asamk.signal.Main.main(Main.java:61)

Cheers!

[grembo]

Hi @0mp,

I ran into the same problem today trying to package signal-cli master (now I realized that I could've saved some of that effort - Duh!)

I'll send you a PM.

[0mp]

I'll send you a PM.

Cool! I'm waiting!

[grembo]

I'll send you a PM.

Cool! I'm waiting!

It basically comes down to hypfvieh/dbus-java not supporting FreeBSD (cmsgcred).

I sent you an email with details.

[grembo]

@0mp I implemented the missing bits in jnr-posix and dbus-java, I can now locally run signal-cli (and scli) successfully.

Pull requests:
jnr/jnr-posix#149
jnr/jnr-posix#150
hypfvieh/dbus-java#105

[0mp]

Nice, all the pending PRs were merged in those other repositories!

[grembo]

Nice, all the pending PRs were merged in those other repositories!

Now all that's left to do is ask projects kindly to cut new releases ;)

[0mp]

I'm facing the following problem now: jnr/jnr-ffi#206

[grembo]

@0mp you were lacking jffi-native (so not a problem with signal-cli), I opened 0mp/freebsd-ports-signal-cli#1 to fix the port skeleton.

[0mp]

signal-cli is now working just fine on FreeBSD! Thanks!

https://www.freshports.org/net-im/signal-cli