Daemon mode fails to run as system service

[Grumbel]

See discussion at:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/xboxdrv/L-mRi0AIVuA/discussion

If xboxdrv is run as root it will enable "--dbus system" instead of "--dbus session", but in newer versions of Ubuntu this results in:

$ sudo xboxdrv --daemon 
xboxdrv 0.8.5 - http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/ 
Copyright © 2008-2011 Ingo Ruhnke <grumbel@gmx.de> 
Licensed under GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> 
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. 
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING 
for details. 

[ERROR] XboxdrvDaemon::run(): fatal exception: failed to get unique dbus name: Connection ":1.68" is not     allowed to own the service "org.seul.Xboxdrv" due to security policies in the configuration file

Workaround is to run xboxdrv as dbus session with "--dbus session".

[sm-Fifteen]

PS: Yeah, this reply is a little late.
It's okay, it's not like it had been almost a year and the default xpad driver had since then gained supprt for my shady Razer controller, which is the reason why I started using xboxdrv in the first place as it supported manual input of USB codes.
Oh, they did?
Jokes aside, if I find that upstart script draft, I might try to get it working again. Xboxdrv still offers a couple of nice adventages compared to xpad, and I wouldn't mind starting to use it again.
It's good to see you're back on working on this too, I thought this project was dead.

[raelgc]

@Grumbel: use --dbus disabled to stop errors about dbus on Ubuntu 14.04.

Here I start xboxdrv with this upstart script at /etc/init/xboxdrv.conf:

# xboxdrv.conf
start on filesystem
pre-start script
    # clean up joysticks
    rm -f /dev/input/js*
end script
exec xboxdrv -D --detach-kernel-driver --silent --dbus disabled

Not related: Maybe there is a better way to remove old joysticks. Usually xpad add them totally wrong, at least here, the x360 receiver is attached as joystick, and joystick 0 started as second. So, I have to cleanup.

[kurumushi]

On many distros changing ownership of dbus services is restricted by default. You just need to create a dbus rule to allow it.

On my system this file is /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.seul.Xboxdrv.conf

<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus
Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
  <policy context="default">
    <allow own="org.seul.Xboxdrv"/>
  </policy>
</busconfig>

[raelgc]

@kurumushi Thank you for point this. I'll update my wrapper package, ubuntu_xboxdrv with this info and re-enable dbus.

[tgurr]

With 575170d applied I get the following error:

xboxdrv[4712]: [ERROR] XboxdrvDaemon::run(): fatal exception: failed to open connection to bus: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11

when trying to start xboxdrv via

ExecStart=/usr/bin/xboxdrv --daemon --silent --deadzone 4000 --deadzone-trigger 10%

[Grumbel]

Hmpf, forgot about that. It's mentioned in issue #16, but with --dbus session now being the default it will trigger for everybody trying to launch xboxdrv on boot. Guess there is no way around install a busconfig and going back to --dbus system.

[Grumbel]

Changed it now so that --dbus session will be used when run as user or when DISPLAY is present and --dbus system will be used when running as root and DISPLAY is missing. Also added a bit of docu to the README. Not ideal, but will have to do for the 0.8.8 release.