Bug#490345: epiphany-browser: Unable to connect to session bus

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:13:07PM +0200, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> Le vendredi 11 juillet 2008 à 18:37 +0400, Alexandra N. Kossovsky a
> écrit :
> > And it pops up following warning:
> > "Epiphany could not connect to the session message bus. Your default
> > settings will not be available." <Button with "OK">
> > 
> > I do not run gnome session, and I guess it is the problem. However,
> > I think epiphany should run necessary parts of gnome instead of printing
> > mysterious message, just like konqueror can run outside of KDE session.
> 
> This should not happen (GNOME or not) unless you have explicitly
> disabled dbus and prevented it from launching
> in /etc/X11/Xsession.options.
> 
> What is the command line of your session? In the process list, it should
> look like this:
> /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session x-session-manager
> (Of course it actually depends on what session manager you are using.)

Note this can happen after dbus crashes, and dbus crashes are far from
unseen.

Mike