Yep, the apps are just failing to detect the session bus address of the Unity8 login.
Workaround for Unity8: 1. Find the real address: ps auxw | grep 'dbus-daemon --session' 2. env DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=... Workaround for native Mir demo shells that have no dbus: None? ** Summary changed: - [regression] GTK apps hang for a very long time on start-up under Xmir and Mir failing to find dbus + [regression] GTK apps hang for a long time on start-up under Xmir (and less under native Mir) failing to find dbus -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to dbus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1604704 Title: [regression] GTK apps hang for a long time on start-up under Xmir (and less under native Mir) failing to find dbus Status in dbus package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in gtk+3.0 package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: $ /usr/games/sol (sol:18808): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-7diijTV1R5: Connection refused GConf Error: No D-BUS daemon running (sol:18808): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-Zlu4hiB92O: Connection refused GConf Error: No D-BUS daemon running $ nautilus (nautilus:18870): libunity-CRITICAL **: unity-launcher.vala:154: Unable to connect to session bus: Could not connect: Connection refused (nautilus:18870): libunity-CRITICAL **: unity-launcher.vala:154: Unable to connect to session bus: Could not connect: Connection refused (nautilus:18870): libunity-CRITICAL **: unity-launcher.vala:154: Unable to connect to session bus: Could not connect: Connection refused (nautilus:18870): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Unable to get session bus: Could not connect: Connection refused (nautilus:18870): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Unable to get session bus: Could not connect: Connection refused (nautilus:18870): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Unable to get session bus: Could not connect: Connection refused To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/1604704/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
