From a747106c974a68f95468bfc0a6bb18c4fd988187 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Ryan C. Gordon" <icculus@icculus.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 19:38:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] linux: If D-Bus isn't available on the system, don't keep
 trying to load it.

Fixes Bugzilla #4476.
---
 src/core/linux/SDL_dbus.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/core/linux/SDL_dbus.c b/src/core/linux/SDL_dbus.c
index 40b3bd307e9e4..4ea3b125b7564 100644
--- a/src/core/linux/SDL_dbus.c
+++ b/src/core/linux/SDL_dbus.c
@@ -111,8 +111,19 @@ LoadDBUSLibrary(void)
 void
 SDL_DBus_Init(void)
 {
-    if (!dbus.session_conn && LoadDBUSLibrary() != -1) {
+    static SDL_bool is_dbus_available = SDL_TRUE;
+    if (!is_dbus_available) {
+        return;  /* don't keep trying if this fails. */
+    }
+
+    if (!dbus.session_conn) {
         DBusError err;
+
+        if (LoadDBUSLibrary() == -1) {
+            is_dbus_available = SDL_FALSE;  /* can't load at all? Don't keep trying. */
+            return;  /* oh well */
+        }
+
         dbus.error_init(&err);
         dbus.session_conn = dbus.bus_get_private(DBUS_BUS_SESSION, &err);
         if (!dbus.error_is_set(&err)) {
@@ -121,6 +132,7 @@ SDL_DBus_Init(void)
         if (dbus.error_is_set(&err)) {
             dbus.error_free(&err);
             SDL_DBus_Quit();
+            is_dbus_available = SDL_FALSE;
             return;  /* oh well */
         }
         dbus.connection_set_exit_on_disconnect(dbus.system_conn, 0);
@@ -154,15 +166,11 @@ SDL_DBus_Quit(void)
 SDL_DBusContext *
 SDL_DBus_GetContext(void)
 {
-    if(!dbus_handle || !dbus.session_conn){
+    if (!dbus_handle || !dbus.session_conn) {
         SDL_DBus_Init();
     }
     
-    if(dbus_handle && dbus.session_conn){
-        return &dbus;
-    } else {
-        return NULL;
-    }
+    return (dbus_handle && dbus.session_conn) ? &dbus : NULL;
 }
 
 static SDL_bool