Bug#578479: gconf error when starting iceweasel

[Erwan David]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:06:17AM CEST, Mike Hommey <mh at glandium.org> said:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:20:58AM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 3.5.8-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > When starting icewesel I get the following error :
> > GConf Error: 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://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-bZR53S1Gdt: Connection refused)
> > 
> > 
> > The /tmp/dbus-bZR53S1Gdt file does not exist.
> > 
> > I did nothing to configure either ORBit, gconf or other gnome stuff that I do not use.
> 
> Do you have a DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable ?
> 
> Mike
> 

Yes. Its value is
unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-bZR53S1Gdt,guid=6caf5176eb3ea67ee9d40f0d00205ce2
I do not know which process sets it. I use slim to start my sessions.

-- 
Erwan