Re: What means this failure??

[Beartooth <beartooth adelphia net>]

On Thu, 04 May 2006 11:23:32 +0200, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:

> På Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:18:44PM -0400, Beartooth skrev:
>> Startup failed because of the following error:
>> Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-ew4gLGoRks: Connection refused
>> 
>> What does it mean, and what can I do about it??
> 
> It means Epiphany couldn't connect to the dbus session bus. Make sure you
> start a dbus session bus when logging in. Usually your distribution takes
> care of this. 

Hmmm ... Dunno from dbus; there seems to be no generic man dbus, and man
dbus-launch is over my head. (The GUI searcher finds 72 files with names
containing the letters dbus -- none of them familiar, alas!) I'm running
Fedora Core 5, btw.

> If you start X using .xinitrc, make sure you have something
> like this in that file:
> 
>   exec dbus-launch ssh-agent gnome-session
> 
> Hope this helps.

Hmmm again. The searcher finds only a few xinitrc files; Main Menu >
System > Administration > Server Settings > Services brings a window
called Service Configuration, which has two lists : one of Background
Services, and one of On Demand Services; neither lists .xinitrc nor dbus.

/etc/grub.conf doesn't mention either one, either. It does say
#boot=/dev/hda (commented out) -- and cat /dev/hda gives me a mass of
incomprehensible gibberish ...

Fwiw, ignoring the dot, I get : 

[root localhost ~]# rpm -q xinitrc
package xinitrc is not installed
[root localhost ~]#

and the same with the dot -- even though the search function does list
two shell scripts and a folder in /etc/X11/xinit (and the folder contains
two more shell scripts)! There is also a very small file in selinux ...

I looked at all of the shell scripts; they're code, of course, which is
worse than Greek to me; and the system uses emacs to display them -- but
any serious editor is also Greek to me. :-(

-- 
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Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.