This is strange indeed, as both notify-osd and notification-daemon get D-BUS activated when needed. What could happen is that they crash when being activated the first time, which would give the "The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files" error.
I could paper over this in Jockey by catching and ignoring the error, but that would just hide the actual problem. Do you get a crash of notify-osd in /var/crash/ and/or dmesg when this happens? ** Changed in: jockey (Ubuntu Oneiric) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/819506 Title: jockey-gtk crashed with GError in function(): GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/819506/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs