On Thu, 04 May 2006 09:49:28 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 20:18 -0400, Beartooth wrote: >> Trying to run a backup machine while my main one is bollixed worse than >> usual, I get this error message when I try to launch Epiphany (under FC5) : >> >> 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?? I run privoxy, but that >> seems not to be the problem .... > > Did you upgrade from a previous Fedora Core release?
Yup -- FC4. Tried it on a testbed, then on others. All seemed well for a week or three; then yum updates started choking on things that ended in .fc4 and produced dependency hells. Trying to fix that, I started playing with pup, pirut, and yumex (all new to me), trying to get something internally consistent. Bollixed three machines in that process, of which one -- the testbed -- proved easily fixable. Still trying to get the others to be able to login under Gnome ... (This is a fourth, without that problem.) > Have a look at: > > <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186356> Looks a lot like my problem, all right. So I tried yum install dbus-x11 and yum update dbus-x11; neither got anything. Tried upper-casing the X; still nothing. So I tried yum whatprovides dbus-x11. Oddly enough, it expanded that immediately to dbus-x11.i386 --and then went on a *long* hunt. It got "Metadata file does not match checksum" over and over, and kept trying other mirrors. When it finally finished, it reported this : Added 3031 new packages, deleted 0 old in 42.81 seconds dbus-x11.i386 0.61-3 core Matched from: dbus-x11 = 0.61-3 dbus-x11.i386 0.61-3 installed Matched from: dbus-x11 dbus-x11.i386 0.33-3.fc4.1 installed Matched from: dbus-x11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Note that fershlugginer .fc4 in there : ten to one that's it, or part of it. (Yes, FC5 still refused to open epiphany, with the same old : "Startup failed because of the following error: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-ew4gLGoRks: Connection refused") So I did yum clean all, followed by yum remove dbus-x11. That took a while, but the only dependency it wanted to remove with it was desktop-printing. I told it yes. Then I told it install dbus-x11 again. This time it looks as if it did something other than it said -- but I may well be wrong. First it said it downloaded dbus-x11-0.61-3.i3 -- then "Installed: dbus-x11.i386 0:0.61-3" -- are those really the same?? Anyway, I went ahead and reinstalled desktop-printing while I remembered to. Then I tried epiphany again -- and *still* got the error. I sure hope all this tedious detail tells somebody something. It amounts to an exercise in frustation on my end. The only thing I can think of left to try are logging out and back in, and if that doesn't work, rebooting. (Shades of M$!) Stay tuned ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD Neo-Redneck Linux Convert FC5; CXO 5.0.1; Pine 4.64, Pan 0.14.2.91; Privoxy 3.0.3; Dillo 0.8.5; Galeon 2.0.1, Epiphany 1.6.5, Opera 8.54, Firefox 1.5 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
