[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#612944: Does not work in SSH-forwarded session

[Richard Kettlewell]

Package: dbus
Version: 1.2.24-4

On starting virt-manager in a SSH-forwarded X session I get a window 
with the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 413, in <module>
     main()
   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 330, in main
     icon_dir, data_dir)
   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/config.py", line 89, in 
__init__
     gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
GError: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is 
a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See 
http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed 
to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket 
/tmp/dbus-AMi2lmzrt3: Connection refused)

"gnome-open ." produces a similar error.

strace of the virt-manager case is attached.  It seems that the parent 
expects the dbus-launch child to have created a socket but it instead 
exits without doing so.

It seems that this behavior can arise from DBUS session files being 
owned by root.  However, that does not apply here; something else is 
going on.

richard at araminta:~$ ls -la /home/richard/.dbus/session-bus
total 40
drwx------ 2 richard richard 4096 Feb 11 19:41 .
drwx------ 3 richard richard 4096 Dec 29  2008 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 richard richard  463 Feb  8 18:22 
6a60a64f076c9b935ffc72eb49592815-0
-rw-r--r-- 1 richard richard  475 Feb  7 23:50 
6a60a64f076c9b935ffc72eb49592815-10
-rw-r--r-- 1 richard richard  477 Feb 10 20:30 
6a60a64f076c9b935ffc72eb49592815-11
-rw-r--r-- 1 richard richard  477 Feb 11 19:32 
6a60a64f076c9b935ffc72eb49592815-12
-rw-r--r-- 1 richard richard  477 Nov  7 14:37 
6a60a64f076c9b935ffc72eb49592815-13
-rw-r--r-- 1 richard richard  477 Aug 22 09:57 
6a60a64f076c9b935ffc72eb49592815-14
-rw-r--r-- 1 richard richard  465 Oct 12 22:52 
6a60a64f076c9b935ffc72eb49592815-20
-rw-rw-r-- 1 richard richard  477 Oct  6 22:43 
8e2a4e6c4412d769a29b44a80005846e-11

ttfn/rjk
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