Re: dbus/gconf error after doing some package installs

[Brett Lymn <brett.lymn%baesystems.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:18:08AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> 
> It was all going fine but somewhere along the lines something has
> mangled a setup somewhere and now when I fire up firefox I get:
> 
> GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common
> cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See
> http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed
> to get connection to session: The connection is closed)    
> 
> Checking the web site cited and doing some googling turned up nothing
> useful to me.  If I uninstall dbus then firefox starts up, if I
> reinstall dbus firefox fails to start with the above message.  I guess
> something I installed touched a config file somewhere which caused this.
> For what it is worth, dbus is running.
> 

I managed to sort this out by removing the .dbus* and .gconf*
directories from my home directory.  I guess there was some 32bit vs
64bit issue in there somewhere caused by me switching from i386 to amd64
and keeping my home directory intact.

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Brett Lymn
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