[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#387549: dbus: Session bus does not accept connections or fails to start properly

[Andre Wendt]

Package: dbus
Version: 0.62-4
Severity: important

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I can neither use gnome-screensaver nor screem (nor yet another package
whose name I forgot now) because of the message:

  couldn't connect to session bus: Unable to determine the address of
  the message bus (try 'man dbus-launch' and 'man dbus-daemon' for help)

$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID are both set,
however, $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is 'unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-SsLs0a*'
while no file /tmp/dbus* exists. Trying to invoke dbus manually using

  $ dbus-daemon --session --fork

has the same result.

This bug renders at least three packages on my machine almost completely
useless. Please do something about this issue.

If you need any more information on this, I'd be more than glad to share
them.

Kind regards,
André

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages dbus depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.97        Add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils                  2.17        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-2                  0.62-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                    1.95.8-3.2  XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libice6                      1:1.0.0-3   X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libsm6                       1:1.0.1-2   X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.0.0-8   X11 client-side library
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-15      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

dbus recommends no packages.

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