evince startup problems (xfce)

[max.wolf]

Binary package hint: evince

starting evince yields:

** (evince:7227): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

the window is displayed after several minutes and is not usable.

evince = 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

Linux max300 2.6.27-13-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 26 07:31:49 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

i am running xfce4.
all packages up to date as of 2009-03-15.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

thank you for reporting this issue.
do you get any other warnings/errors when running evince under xfce?
the warning you are mentioning is completely normal, evince is looking for the gnome settings daemon, but should continue loading without a problem if it doesn't find it (i.e. in other desktop environments, such as XFCE or KDE)...
what i'm saying is, if you do have an issue, it's unrelated to the attached warning...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the warning seems to indicate that dbus is not running correctly, do you get the issue by using "dbus-launch evince"?

[max.wolf (max-wolf)]

The behaviour WAS, that opening any pdf took several minutes when it opened at all, while everything else was working completely normal.

The issue is gone.
I did nothing to fix it. At least not on purpose.
"dbus-launch evince" works fine too.
The warning remains.

the bug can probably be closed or set to invalid.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.