D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open “/var/lib/dbus/machine-id”

A simple fix for once. I usually see this problem when I’ve installed a barebones / headless system and then wanted to add xorg to it later.

This particular time, this error cropped up when trying to run Eclipse Memory Analyzer over a X11 Forwarding session using SSH. Eclipse would throw this error and fail to start.


process 3104: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
JVMDUMP006I Processing dump event "abort", detail "" - please wait.
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested System dump using '/root/mem/mat/core.20111216.145922.3104.0001.dmp' in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I System dump written to /root/mem/mat/core.20111216.145922.3104.0001.dmp
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Java dump using '/root/mem/mat/javacore.20111216.145922.3104.0002.txt' in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Java dump written to /root/mem/mat/javacore.20111216.145922.3104.0002.txt
JVMDUMP032I JVM requested Snap dump using '/root/mem/mat/Snap.20111216.145922.3104.0003.trc' in response to an event
JVMDUMP010I Snap dump written to /root/mem/mat/Snap.20111216.145922.3104.0003.trc
JVMDUMP013I Processed dump event "abort", detail "".


To fix it, run

dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id


If you don’t have dbus-uuidgen , it’s in the dbus package, which can be installed by issuing yum install dbus (of course!).

Happy weekend!