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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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