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On Saturday 01 March 2008 11:17:36 Simon Waters wrote: > 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? Thanks Simon > 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. No it was a first reboot boot after a fresh install and update/upgrade, plus KDE installation. > > 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. Only Epiphany seems affected > 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. I wasn't at that stage. It may be because I was logged in to a KDE desktop. But I've never had that message before for any Gnome application called up from KDE. > 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. Seems OK in Gnome, ditto in KDE apart from the message > 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). No, I don't use the Gnome desktop, just the odd application. As it doesn't appear to be serious/contagious I'll play around with it for a while. Thanks -- W. Devon ------------ A Gnu/Linux user -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html