Can't get dbus working on M1 as guide suggests

[s1gtrap]

Description

Hi, I'm trying to get this working on an M1 machine.

This is my 5th or so attempt but I’m fairly certain it is a clean install (having run brew unlink/brew uninstall for dbus, zathura-pdf-poppler, zathura and girara. This also seems like it might be a dbus problem as the current problem is seemingly only with dbus, but I figured I would try here first as others seem to have resolved their dbus with help from here.

Following the :help vimtex-faq-zathura-macos docs:

1. brew install dbus finishes successfully

2. So does adding export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=$DBUS_LAUNCHD_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET” to .zshrc, naturally.

3. I assume /usr/local/opt/dbus/share/dbus-1/session.conf is substituted by /opt/homebrew/Cellar/dbus/1.14.10/share/dbus-1/session.conf in my case, since I’m on an M1, but if that’s true the entry is changed to the following

   <auth>DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1</auth>
   

4. This is where it starts to go wrong…
Upon reloading the shell and running brew services start dbus, it seemingly starts fine:

   $ brew services start dbus
   ==> Successfully started `dbus` (label: org.freedesktop.dbus-session)
   

   but upon checking

   $ brew services info dbus
   dbus (org.freedesktop.dbus-session)
   Running: ✘
   Loaded: ✔
   Schedulable: ✘
   

   which is where it all starts to go wrong. Running brew services start dbus again

   $ brew services start dbus
   Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error
   Try re-running the command as root for richer errors.
   Error: Failure while executing; `/bin/launchctl bootstrap gui/501 /Users/s1g/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist` exited with 5.
   

   and dbus-launch gets me

   $ dbus-launch
   dbus-daemon[9336]: Failed to start message bus: launchd's environment variable DBUS_LAUNCHD_SESSION_BUS_SOCKET is empty, but should contain a socket path.
   
   EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon
   

   also running the launchctl command as sudo just gets me:

   $ sudo /bin/launchctl bootstrap gui/501 /Users/s1g/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist
   Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error
   

So yea I’m really at a loss..

Steps to reproduce

No response

Expected behavior

No response

Actual behavior

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Do you use a latexmkrc file?

No

VimtexInfo

System info:
  OS: macOS 14.1 (23B74)
  Vim version: NVIM v0.9.4
  Has clientserver: true
  Servername: /var/folders/m6/nyw0tbd5239gngtm06pzykr00000gn/T/nvim.s1g/GvUYPs/nvim.9533.0

VimTeX project: article
  base: article.tex
  root: /Users/s1g/Workspaces/BSc/report
  tex: /Users/s1g/Workspaces/BSc/report/article.tex
  main parser: current file verified
  document class: article
  packages: adjcalc beramono biblatex blx-case-expl3 collectbox courier epstopdf-base etoolbox expl3 fontenc graphics graphicx iftex ifthen infwarerr keyval kvoptions kvsetkeys listings logreq lstlang1 lstlang2 lstlang3 lstmisc ltxcmds pdftexcmds realboxes titlesec trig url xcolor xkeyval xparse xpatch
  compiler: latexmk
    engine: -pdf
    options:
      -verbose
      -file-line-error
      -synctex=1
      -interaction=nonstopmode
    callback: 1
    continuous: 1
    executable: latexmk
  viewer: Zathura
    xwin id: 0
  qf method: LaTeX logfile

[lervag]

I'm sorry; as I don't use Mac myself, I don't really have a good way to help. I'm hoping someone like @clason might be able to help, though?

[clason]

I don't use Zathura, sorry!

[s1gtrap]

@clason Well zathura is far from a must, I just need a PDF viewer to reliably see what I'm working on. But either way this doesn't really appear to be a zathura issue, more of a dbus problem so all depending it might still apply..

[clason]

Yes, but Skim (which I use) doesn't rely on dbus.

[s1gtrap]

Awesome! Skim seems to be working out of the box :)

Not sure what to do about this issue, but other people do appear to be experiencing the same issue with dbus: https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/2318

[lervag]

Happy to see you find Skim to work nicely. Regarding the issue, I propose we close it. I don't have any idea how to resolve it, and I don't see the value in keeping things open unless there is someone able and willing to possibly resolve it.

[ravibrock]

Speaking as someone who uses VimTeX on Mac, tt could nip some of these issues in the bud if the docs simply suggest using Sioyek or Skim on MacOS - I remember spending hours trying to get Zathura working on Mac, just to eventually give up and discover that Sioyek is, as far as I can tell at least, roughly a 1-to-1 replacement on Mac that works out of the box.

[lervag]

Thanks for the suggestion, @ravibrock. I've updated the docs.

I'll also take the liberty of closing this issue.

[Zdmai]

Speaking as someone who uses VimTeX on Mac, tt could nip some of these issues in the bud if the docs simply suggest using Sioyek or Skim on MacOS - I remember spending hours trying to get Zathura working on Mac, just to eventually give up and discover that Sioyek is, as far as I can tell at least, roughly a 1-to-1 replacement on Mac that works out of the box.

thanks, that's awsome