Not working on Clear Linux

[bedawi]

HI there,

I am trying to install the IIO Sensor Proxy on Clear Linux. I cloned the repo and proceeded like this:

./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

udevadm info --export-db shows this amongst a lot more:

P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:17.2/i2c_designware.6/i2c-11/i2c-KIOX000A:00/iio:device0
N: iio:device0
L: 0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:17.2/i2c_designware.6/i2c-11/i2c-KIOX000A:00/iio:device0
E: SUBSYSTEM=iio
E: DEVNAME=/dev/iio:device0
E: DEVTYPE=iio_device
E: MAJOR=239
E: MINOR=0
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=5552361
E: ACCEL_MOUNT_MATRIX=1, 0, 0; 0, -1, 0; 0, 0, 1
E: IIO_SENSOR_PROXY_TYPE=iio-buffer-accel
E: SYSTEMD_WANTS=iio-sensor-proxy.service
E: TAGS=:systemd:

More output:

Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name net.hadess.SensorProxy was not provided by any .service files

$ sudo systemctl status iio-sensor-proxy.service
● iio-sensor-proxy.service - IIO Sensor Proxy service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/iio-sensor-proxy.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2020-02-22 17:38:24 CET; 7s ago
    Process: 3880 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/iio-sensor-proxy (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Main PID: 3880 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Feb 22 17:38:24 s11b systemd[1]: Starting IIO Sensor Proxy service...
Feb 22 17:38:24 s11b systemd[1]: iio-sensor-proxy.service: Succeeded.
Feb 22 17:38:24 s11b systemd[1]: Started IIO Sensor Proxy service.

I guess this could have something to do with Clear Linux. Unfortunately journalctl does not provide a clue whats wrong. Here is the journal's output when restarting the iio-sensor-proxy.service:

Feb 22 17:30:59 s11b systemd[1]: Starting IIO Sensor Proxy service...
Feb 22 17:30:59 s11b systemd[1]: iio-sensor-proxy.service: Succeeded.
Feb 22 17:30:59 s11b systemd[1]: Started IIO Sensor Proxy service.

I turned on debugging and got this output:

iio-sensor-prox[4109]: iio-sensor-proxy is already running, or it cannot own its D-Bus name. Verify installation.

...and no, the service is not already running.

I had also provided a custom a custom 61-sensor-local.hwdb-file in /etc/udev/hwdb.d/ as I describe on my GitHub repo here: https://github.com/bedawi/trekstor-s11b/tree/master/systemd - I do not think this is related to the problem but who knows?!

[hadess]

iio-sensor-prox[4109]: iio-sensor-proxy is already running, or it cannot own its D-Bus name. Verify installation.

...and no, the service is not already running.

Then it's the other thing.

You didn't install iio-sensor-proxy properly and D-Bus can't find the .service files associated with it. You probably want to pass --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc, or ask the ClearLinux distribution about this.

[bedawi]

OK, just for follow up, so that others, who repeat my mistakes, find a solution here:

The command is: ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc

I had to uninstall the old files with sudo make uninstall and I had to clone a new copy of the repository. Then compiling went through and after a reboot the device worked.

@hadess: maybe you like to update your instructions on https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/blob/master/README.md - thanks for your work!