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renormalon
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PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 10:12 pm    Post subject: Firefox, gconf, and dbus Reply with quote

When I start firefox, I get a popup box that says
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An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for firefox. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.

There's a "Details" button that, when clicked, shows the following text
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Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-SfpSLB5Ong: Connection refused)

After displaying the popup box, firefox starts up normally. Also, the error only occurs in my account. On my wife's account, firefox starts up with no errors.

There's no dbus-SfpSLB5Ong file in /tmp, but that address does seem to be in my environment variables.
Code:
localhost tmp # env | grep DBUS
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-SfpSLB5Ong,guid=af8767e6787d5f5dd87a0f3e4a18a8f2

Thanks in advance for any help.

Martin
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PostPosted: Sun May 31, 2009 1:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

try
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export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=""
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 7:37 am    Post subject: firefox connection to session /tmp/dbus-x connection refused Reply with quote

A search on "firefox failed to get connection to session /tmp/dbus connection refused" got me here, and I was seeing this error message exactly, but probably from a different starting point.

I was running firefox on the command line, as just "firefox".

I needed to use "dbus-launch firefox" instead.
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