www/epiphany on ia64 fails to start with: Unable to connect to session bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-dyUjnhLBwE: No such file or directory

[Kevin Oberman]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> I've built epiphany-2.30.6_2 on ia64 r231193M.
>
> It fails to start with:
>
> % epiphany
>
> ** (epiphany:17117): WARNING **: Unable to connect to session bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-dyUjnhLBwE: No such file or directory
> %
>
> I did a quick search on the net, but can't find
> anything useful.
>
> Please advise

Is dbus running? The error indicates that the dbus socket is not found.
ps -Uyour_user_name | grep dbus should show several processes, most importantly:
/usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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