Launched Thunderbird 3.1.3 and get an error each time

[Laura Czajkowski]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

I upgraded from Lucid to Maverick yesterday, and upgraded to Thunderbird 3.1.3 after doing some updates today, when I launch TB I get a pop up message saying

" 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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)
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: Server ping error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0)

I can still access my email, folders, send and receive

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: thunderbird 3.1.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 5 14:11:06 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. That's strange though, is this just a normal gnome session? I assume gconfd2 is actually running? (I'd be surprised if it's not). Does the error go away if you do "dbus-launch thunderbird"?

[Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski)]

No error is displayed when you run dbus-launch thunderbird

yes gconfd2 is running also

[Chris Klatt (klatt-christian)]

I can confirm. I'm running Maverick and started seeing this once I upgraded to Thunderbird 3.1.6 today. dbus-launch thunderbird does not produce the error. gconfd2 is running.

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