Some apps must be run with dbus-launch

Binary package hint: dbus

I've logged in to my system using the "Ubuntu Desktop Edition" session and run a shell.

When running some applications, I get dbus errors unless I run the app with 'dbus-launch'. dbus and gconf are running.

Examples:

$ evince

(evince:16835): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: Could not open network socket

Failed to get bus connection: Error connecting: Connection refused
**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.26.0/gio/gdbusconnection.c:2270:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)

** (evince:16835): WARNING **: Couldn't run bug-buddy

$ ubuntu-bug evince
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 24975 package 'jre':
 error in Version string '1.6.0_05-1': invalid character in version number
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 26517 package 'jre':
 error in Version string '1.6.0_05-1': invalid character in version number
GConf Error: 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: Error connecting: Connection refused)
GConf Error: 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: Error connecting: Connection refused)
Error showing url: Operation not supported
GConf Error: 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: Error connecting: Connection refused)
GConf Error: 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: Error connecting: Connection refused)
Error showing url: Operation not supported

(The projects.gnome.org URL is a general overview of gconf, not D-Bus troubleshooting information as expected.)

dbus and gconf are running:

$ ps aux |grep dbus |grep -v grep
103 1060 0.0 0.2 8240 6344 ? Ss Dec22 1:47 dbus-daemon --system --fork
gdm 8459 0.0 0.0 3456 568 ? S 16:37 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session
scjody 8565 0.0 0.0 3348 204 ? Ss 16:37 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session
scjody 8568 0.0 0.0 3456 564 ? S 16:37 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session
scjody 8569 0.0 0.0 4568 1976 ? Ss 16:37 0:05 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session

$ ps aux |grep gconf |grep -v grep
scjody 8574 0.0 0.1 9616 4520 ? S 16:37 0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: dbus 1.4.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Dec 26 18:19:08 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dbus