Evolutiion fails to start. Cannot connect /tmp/dbus-*
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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evolution (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I have a new installation of xubuntu 16.04 fully updated within the past hour, running on a Lenovo T550.
I have been using Evolution for a couple oof dys, but after this morning's update it is failing to start. Error message is
$ evolution
** (evolution:3169): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-
Nothing in syslog.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
Release: 16.04
$ apt-cache policy evolution
evolution:
Installed: 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3.2
Candidate: 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3.2
Version table:
*** 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3.2 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
3.
500 http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: evolution 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3.2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-112-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 11 12:19:26 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-09 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Following up on my report, if I try to start it as root instead of as a normal user it starts, but I get:
** (evolution:4716): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus- 4Me0oN1k69: Connection refused
(evolution:4716): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error: org.freedesktop .DBus.Error. ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome. SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
(evolution:4716): evolution- mail-WARNING **: e_mail_ remote_ content_ set_config_ filename: Failed to open '/root/ .config/ evolution/ mail/remote- content. db': unable to open database file
(evolution:4716): evolution- mail-WARNING **: e_mail_ properties_ set_config_ filename: Failed to open '/root/ .config/ evolution/ mail/properties .db': unable to open database file
** (evolution- alarm-notify: 4725): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus- 4Me0oN1k69: Connection refused