Hey Jorge On 8/8/08, Jorge Gorín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear Sirs: > > First of all, I must say that I am not a regular Linux user, not even a > casual user, I am a Windows user that took advantage from the new Ubuntu > 8.04 version that can be installed (and uninstalled) as just another Windows > application, so it lets me have a peek into Linux in an easy way. >
Cool!, welcome :). > (I must remain a Windows user because all the software that use for work is > Windows-based.) > > Now, I first installed Ubuntu (not Kubuntu) in my notebook, and then > installed Epiphany on it, and everything worked fine. Epiphany works OK in > Ubuntu. > > Then I had to have my notebook inactive for a week or so, so I decided to > install, in the meantime, Linux in my desktop computer using the same > installer, wubi.exe. > > This installation program (wubi.exe) gives me the chance of installing > several flavors of Linux, and my son, who is a Linux user, convinced me to > try this time with Kubuntu, another installation alternative, which I did. > The difference between Kubuntu and Ubuntu is that the first one uses KDE as its desktop environment, while the second one uses GNOME. Epiphany is part of GNOME. > So far, so good. (Or mostly so good.:-) But, when installing Epiphany, not > from your webpage but from the Kubuntu packet handler, I then found that > when willing to run it, Epiphany would not start, giving an error message > that reads: > > **Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session.** > > I don't know what dbus is, neither do I know what a D-Bus session is, but > what I know is that it was absolutely impossible for me to find anything > alike in the Kubuntu packet installer (sorry, I am now in Windows and do not > remember right now the name of the installer) and whatever I tried did not > work. > D-Bus is part of the infrastructure used by the software in the "free desktops", it's just a piece of software that allows applications to talk to each in a nice independent way. It's weird that you have that problem you mention, since this is a new installation it should just work. Does this still happen after logging out and logging in to your session? See this report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/85118 Try launching epiphany from a console (terminal), run the command "epiphany" or "epiphany-gecko" (I think latest ubuntu uses both names). Another chance is to run 'dbus-launch epiphany', perhaps there's something wrong with the application launcher (the menu shortcut). good luck _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
