After the upgrade to gnome 2.14 the epiphany browser will not
run under kde.
eculp at encontacto.net
eculp at encontacto.net
Fri May 5 12:55:51 UTC 2006
Quoting michael johnson <buhnux at gmail.com>:
> On 5/5/06, eculp at encontacto.net <eculp at encontacto.net> wrote:
>>
>> Quoting michael johnson <buhnux at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > On 5/5/06, eculp at encontacto.net <eculp at encontacto.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> After the upgrade to 2.14, the Epiphany web browser no longer wants to
>> >> run with kde. It generates the following error:
>> >>
>> >> Startup failed because of the following error:
>> >> Unable to determine the address of the message bus
>> >
>> >
>> > You need dbus running. I'm going to copy and paste
>> > the old faq since we removed it since gnome-session
>> > starts dbus session.
>> >
>> > *How do I use D-BUS from within the GNOME Desktop?*
>> >
>> > If you ever start up an application and see the following error:
>> >
>> > WARNING **: Service registration failed.
>> >
>> > WARNING **: Unable to determine the address of the message bus
>> >
>> > It means the application wants to use
>> > D-BUS<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fdbus>.
>> > D-BUS is a message bus system which allows for applications to
>> communicate
>> > with one another. Many applications such as Evince, Epiphany, Evolution,
>> and
>> > Liferea are starting to make use of D-BUS's services.
>> >
>> > In order for applications to communicate with D-BUS, the system message
>> > daemon must first be started. To do this, add the following to
>> /etc/rc.conf:
>> >
>> > dbus_enable="YES"
>>
>> Thanks, Michael. Unfortunately, a dbus daemon is running. I'm not
>> totally sure that it is the right one but . . . # ps -ax|grep dbus
>> 53278 ?? Ss 0:00.00 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system
>> 53803 p1 R+ 0:00.00 grep dbus
>>
>> this is the version from ports/devel/dbus and epiphany still refuses to
>> start. I haven't shutdown and restarted the machine but will give it a
>> try as soon as I can although I wouldn't think that would be necessary.
>>
>> Thanks again. Have a great day,
>
>
>
> try running "dbus-launch epiphany"
A few warnings but it works.
Thanks,
ed
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