Certain features in the Sharing panel fail with D-Bus related messages when gnome-control-center is run over ssh -X
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center |
New
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Unknown
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When I run gnome-control-
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What does this mean? Can I do anything about it? A remote user, sitting in front of the remote computer, can enable Screen Sharing or Media Sharing in gnome-control-
Looking up this error online led me down a D-Bus rabbit hole. I found many year-old StackExchange answers that recommend setting various environment variables and/or running dbus-launch to start a session bus instance of dbus-daemon, in case of D-Bus related errors.
I am rather unfamiliar with D-Bus, but I can see using ps -ef | grep dbus that a session bus instance of dbus-daemon is already running. It has been started under my UID at the time of my SSH login. So I'm wary of those old resources. I have tried following their instructions though, for completeness sake, but to no avail. I can provide more information if necessary.
(*) This odd situation happened when I had to provide technical support over VNC to an older user whose computer I had previously set up with SSH access. Hence why I was using ssh -X to try and enable VNC in gnome-control-
tags: | added: focal |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
tags: | added: groovy |
tags: | removed: groovy |
Changed in gnome-control-center: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Here is another user reporting the same GDBus errors when trying to enable Screen Sharing on Ubuntu Server 20.04, if I understand correctly:
https:/ /askubuntu. com/questions/ 1238329