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Re: [LUG] Help Please - Strange Message

 

David Bell wrote:
> I'm using Debian (Lenny) and get the following message when I try to run 
> Epiphany:
> 
> < Epiphany could not connect to the session message bus. Your default settings 
> will not be available. >
> 
> Any ideas why and what it means please?

Afraid it likely means what it says. Epiphany tried to connect to a
messaging system to get suitable default settings, and couldn't.

This could be unrelated to epiphany if the messaging system stopped for
some reason.

Likely causes;

Trying to start Epiphany in an unusual way - like on a remote machine -
or after you've "su" a number of times and forgotten that you've mangled
the environment.

Death of relevant processes (try restarting the desktop Window Manager -
GNOME(?), or the machine - rebooting the machine is the surest reset
here). Since the messaging service may be in a corrupt state.

Misconfiguration of desktop. Perhaps due to an inconsistent set of
packages (try "apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade"). Are you using
only Debian official repositories? Not using 3rd party repositories or
code (GNOME applications) compiled from source.

If it is reproducible on a "restart machine/login to GNOME/start
Epiphany" you might try creating a new user to rule out GNOME session
information for the current user.

If you use GNOME and meet the above requirements and it persists
probably worth filing a bug report (if one doesn't exist already -
Google didn't find one but I didn't try reportbug).


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