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epiphany-browser package

epiphany does not start - complains about dbus proxy

Bug #29906 reported by Robert Collins
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epiphany-browser (Ubuntu)
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Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

After fully updating today (28th jan) I get the following starting epiphany:
==
$epiphany

** (epiphany:5361): WARNING **: Unable to connect to session bus: Unable to determine the address of the message bus

** (epiphany:5361): WARNING **: Unable to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

** (epiphany:5361): WARNING **: Unable to get proxy for DBus's s bus.

** (epiphany:5361): WARNING **: Unable to get DBus proxy; aborting activation.
====

ii epiphany-browser 1.9.5.1-0ubuntu3 Intuitive GNOME web browser

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. What version of dbus is installed? Is the session bus running?

Changed in epiphany:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 29906] epiphany does not start - complains about dbus proxy

On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 11:41 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29906
>
> Comment:
> Thanks for your bug. What version of dbus is installed? Is the session
> bus running?

ii libdbus-1-2 0.60-2ubuntu10

how can I tell if the sessions dbus is running?

Rob

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

dbus-daemon is not running, not is DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS set.

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

turns out dbus was not installed. Should epiphany not depend on dbus if it needs it ?

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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote :

epiphany has libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.60), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.60) in Depends... but it probably should also Depend on dbus itself because it doesn't work at all without it... what's your oppinion on this, Sebastien?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That's why that bug is still open, I will add the Depends for the next upload (I'm supposed to do that for some uploads now). Shouldn't the Depends be on dbus-1-utils rather though?

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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote :

Why dbus-1-utils? It only contains /usr/bin/dbus-viewer and /usr/bin/dbus-monitor which is completely not needed... (btw, you could remove dbus-1-utils from ubuntu-desktop)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Because
$ dlocate /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus-1-utils_dbus-launch
dbus-1-utils: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus-1-utils_dbus-launch

but
$ dlocate /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus_dbus-launch
dbus: /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus_dbus-launch

so right, dbus is enough but why does dbus-1-utils ship that too so?

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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote :

Uh it shouldn't... are you sure this file is still there? The one from dbus-1-utils should be removed in preinst unless you have an old version of it... see bug #31998

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

as indicated by my previous comment the file is installed, I'll have a look on it later

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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote :

Thanks... that's really weird

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Barry deFreese (bddebian) wrote :

OK, lots of comments gentlemen. Has this been resolved? Thank you.

Changed in epiphany-browser:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Sebastian, the preinst for dbus uses "0.60-6ubunt6", note the typo to "ubuntu", should I open a bug about that?

This upload fixes the Depends issue:

 epiphany-browser (2.14.1-0ubuntu5) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/control.in:
     - Depends on dbus since it's required (Ubuntu: #29906)

Changed in epiphany-browser:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote :

Thanks for noticing this *sigh*
No need for a bugreport, I'll get this fixed now :)

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