[Bug 39544] epiphany does not work on a remote desktop session

Jos Dehaes jos_dehaes at fastmail.fm
Fri Apr 14 11:15:39 UTC 2006


Public bug reported:

Affects: epiphany-browser (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Major
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
When I open a remote session with NX, or just ssh into a box, starting epiphany fails with a DBUS error. 3.00$ ssh jos at quattro
jos at quattro's password: 
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
Linux quattro 2.6.15-20-amd64-k8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Apr 4 18:03:46 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
Last login: Thu Apr 13 16:15:04 2006 from 152.62.109.21
jos at quattro:~$ epiphany

** (epiphany-browser:13352): WARNING **: Unable to connect to session bus: Unable to determine the address of the message bus
jos at quattro:~$ 

Galeon or firefox do work with remote sessions.
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epiphany does not work on a remote desktop session
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/39544




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