WARNING Couldn't connect to accessibility bus Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus* starting sound-juicer

[Michael Lueck]

Sound Juicer application will not start on my fully updated Xubuntu 14.04 x64 system today. I tried starting it from the terminal window, and see this error while doing so:

$ sound-juicer

** (sound-juicer:18540): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-xQCoPAmspq: Connection refused

I tried to run it as root via:

$ sudo sound-juicer

with similar results.

I have removed the files /tmp/dbus-* including the root owned ones from the sudo attempt.

This sounds similar to defect:

"Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-*"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1193236

Although all of those reported application issues have been resolved. Perhaps just Sound Juicer was overlooked?

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
Release: 14.04

$ apt-cache policy sound-juicer
sound-juicer:
  Installed: 3.5.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.5.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.5.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: sound-juicer 3.5.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-71.114-generic 3.13.11-ckt29
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-71-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Mon Dec 14 14:50:41 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-18 (1121 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120817.3)
SourcePackage: sound-juicer
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-21 (602 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Paul Smith (pjsanfil)]

I see this error when starting gedit or nemo from the command line.

[Paul Smith (pjsanfil)]

Looks the same as this bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1056820
I tried the suggested workaround of adding "export NO_AT_BRIDGE=1" to .bashrc and that made the warning message go away.

It looks like the version of ibus that red hat switched to might have some bug fixes over the Ubuntu one based on the version number shown in that bug report where it was reported as fixed, just guessing though.