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dave-gallagher · Post by **dave-gallagher** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:03 pm

abhidg · Post by **abhidg** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:55 pm

is dbus started?

derelm · Post by **derelm** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:04 pm

i experienced that when i had kdm as login-manager and i logged into a gnome session.

as a workaround i am now using gdm to login (i am to lazy to investigate...)

dave-gallagher · Post by **dave-gallagher** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:07 pm

garbageiscool2 · Post by **garbageiscool2** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 5:18 am

I'm also having the same problem. Would love to know what is wrong.

mark.stavar · Post by **mark.stavar** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:59 am

You have to have dbus automatically started.

1. Emerge dbus with your favourite options

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# emerge --verbose --ask dbus

2. Add dbus to the startup process

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# rc-update add dbus default

3. Start it manually for the moment...

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# /etc/init.d/dbus start

That should do the trick for you.

Ciao,

marks
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garbageiscool2 · Post by **garbageiscool2** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:54 pm

Dbus is started automatically and i'm still getting the same error. Do i perhaps need to be in a special group to get dbus access?

cbtg2006 · Post by **cbtg2006** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:07 am

I too get the error:

Could not start GNOME Web Browser
Startup failed because of the following error:
Unable to determin the address of the message bus (try 'man dbus-launch' and 'man dbus-daemon' for help'

My USE flags whilst emerging gnome did contain dbus and hald as specified in the gentoo gnome howto.

I can run epiphany using the command dbus-launch epiphany.

The dbus and hld services are also running at startup.

garbageiscool2 · Post by **garbageiscool2** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:37 am

cbtg2006 wrote:I can run epiphany using the command dbus-launch epiphany.

This also works on my system. Is this dbus error we are getting perhaps a bug?

tylerwylie · Post by **tylerwylie** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:12 am

Either append dbus-launch to the beginning or use GDM to start it up.