Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon

[morgoth]

Hey, I'm trying to run clay on Ubuntu server 18.04 I'm getting error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/wojtek/.local/bin/clay", line 7, in <module>
    from clay.app import main
  File "/home/wojtek/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/clay/app.py", line 16, in <module>
    from clay.player import player
  File "/home/wojtek/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/clay/player.py", line 19, in <module>
    from clay.osd import osd_manager
  File "/home/wojtek/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/clay/osd.py", line 61, in <module>
    osd_manager = _OSDManager()  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
  File "/home/wojtek/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/clay/osd.py", line 31, in __init__
    self.bus = SessionBus()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 211, in __new__
    mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 100, in __new__
    bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 122, in __new__
    bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11

so I tried to export DISPLAY=:0, but know I'm getting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/wojtek/.local/bin/clay", line 7, in <module>
    from clay.app import main
  File "/home/wojtek/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/clay/app.py", line 16, in <module>
    from clay.player import player
  File "/home/wojtek/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/clay/player.py", line 19, in <module>
    from clay.osd import osd_manager
  File "/home/wojtek/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/clay/osd.py", line 61, in <module>
    osd_manager = _OSDManager()  # pylint: disable=invalid-name
  File "/home/wojtek/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/clay/osd.py", line 31, in __init__
    self.bus = SessionBus()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 211, in __new__
    mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/_dbus.py", line 100, in __new__
    bus = BusConnection.__new__(subclass, bus_type, mainloop=mainloop)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 122, in __new__
    bus = cls._new_for_bus(address_or_type, mainloop=mainloop)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally without any error message

Do you know what can be wrong?

[ValentijnvdBeek]

Hi Morgoth,

It is trying to launch the XDG notification services but it is failing since you don't have X11 installed. This should be fixed in the development branch (porcelain) but that has been taking forever to merge.

Commenting out line 61 in clay/osd.py and line 421 in clay/player.py should work