Thunderbird Link Issue [ dbus ] ?

farslayer · 04-20-2006, 08:32 PM

Whenever I click a Link in Thunderbird Instead of the system opening the link in my default browser I get the following message :

Quote:

Could not start GNOME Web Browser
Startup failed because of the following error:
Unable to determine the address of the message bus

I've searched a bit and found this is somehow related to dbus, but dbus appears to be installed and running. What do I need to do to get dbus functional again, copying and pasting each and every link gets old really quick.

A couple of the posts mention dbus-launch which is part of the dbus-1-utils package, when I attempt to install dbus-1-utils it wants to uninstall dbus-1 and install dbus in it's place.. is that correct ?

Code:

debian:~# apt-cache policy dbus-1
dbus-1:
  Installed: 0.23.4-8
  Candidate: 0.23.4-8
  Version table:
 *** 0.23.4-8 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

debian:~# apt-cache policy dbus
dbus:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.61-5
  Version table:
     0.61-5 0
        500 ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu unstable/main Packages

debian:~# apt-cache policy dbus-1-utils
dbus-1-utils:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.61-5
  Version table:
     0.61-5 0
        500 ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu unstable/main Packages

dbus and dbus-1-utils appear to be newer than dbus-1 so I went ahead and made the move, I then ran dbus-launch as mentioned in the search results

Quote:

debian:~# dbus-launch
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS='unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-AwGzxujH2Z,guid=c432484409bd8c8407f698a75f360e00';
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=5406;

Quote:

debian:~# ps ax | grep dbus
5396 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
5406 ? Ss 0:00 dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --session

Whern I try clicking the Links again still no joy, I get the same error message

What else can I do to get this fixed ?

Thanks for your assistance..

debian sid 2.6.16-1-686

farslayer · 04-23-2006, 09:54 PM

Ok well the latest apt-get update && apt-get upgrade seems to have resolved the dbus issue.. now I'm just left with:

gnome is ignoring my prefered browser selection. under preferences I have firefox selected, and gnome ignores my preference setting and launches Gnome web browser 2.14 instead..

herd · 04-24-2006, 06:04 AM

have a look at update-alternatives (man page)
There, you should point x-www-browser to firefox.
Also, there's a gnome settings utility called 'preferred applications'.

These should fix your problem if you use the firefox version from the repository.
If you downloaded and installed manually, locate your firefox binary with "which firefox" and manually browse from the above two settings applications.

farslayer · 04-26-2006, 07:57 PM

Thanks prefered applications had absolutely no effect, it's already set to firefox.

I thought update-alternatves would be gnome-wwww-browser but for some reason that only sees epiphany..

update-alternatves worked when I changed x-www-browser to firefox as you suggested. .