Bug 1056820 - Every app with a graphic display complains "Couldn't register with accessibility bus"
Summary: Every app with a graphic display complains "Couldn't register with accessibil...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-session
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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: 1071678 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-01-23 01:09 UTC by Michal Jaegermann
Modified: 2017-09-20 21:00 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-07-19 10:54:31 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2014-01-23 01:09:13 UTC
Description of problem:

Starting any application with a graphic display invariably causes a complaint like this:

gnome-session[1471]: ** (gnome-control-center:15699): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

Instead of gnome-control-center that could be gnome-terminal, emacs, evince, nm-applet, .... whatever.  On a freshly opened gnome-session in a short time

journalctl -x --since=today | grep -c access

produced 24 different such warnings.

I am not really sure if gnome-session is the right component but at least this is what produces all these WARNINGs

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-session-3.10.1-1.fc20
at-spi2-core-2.10.2-1.fc20
dbus-1.6.12-8.fc20

How reproducible:
All the time


Expected results:
No whining

Additional info:
Check for assorted "accessibilty support" shows that the following _are running_

1105 /usr/libexec/at-spi-bus-launcher
1109 /bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3
1113 /usr/libexec/at-spi2-registryd --use-gnome-session

See also bug 1055674

Comment 1 Michal Jaegermann 2014-01-23 22:57:44 UTC
Results of internet searches suggests that setting in environment NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 prevents all this "accessibility bus" whining.  No idea what this variable is really doing, and this sounds to me like just papering over the problem, but dropping a file with a suitable command into /etc/profile.d/ indeed seems to have such effect. With this is in place so far I recorded only one "gnome-session[11609]: ** (gnome-shell:11695): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply....".

If these warnings are indeed just a noise why they are present in the first place?

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2014-03-02 20:39:09 UTC
*** Bug 1071678 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Gene Snider 2014-10-18 22:23:26 UTC
This bug is present in F21 alpha, and the NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 bandaid stops it.  But, isn't something broken, anyway?

Gene

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Comment 5 Alan Eliasen 2015-05-30 03:56:33 UTC
Still exists in Fedora 22.

Comment 6 Adri Verhoef 2015-06-22 18:15:27 UTC
Fedora 21, kernel 4.04, problem fixed.

ibus-1.5.10-5.fc21.x86_64
at-spi2-core-2.14.1-1.fc21.x86_64
dbus-1.8.18-1.fc21.x86_64
(NO_AT_BRIDGE is not set)

Comment 7 Michal Jaegermann 2015-06-22 23:42:11 UTC
(In reply to Adri Verhoef from comment #6)
> Fedora 21, kernel 4.04, problem fixed.

So far I tried on one machine with kernel-4.0.5-200.fc21.x86_64 and the trouble indeed seems to be resolved.  I have no idea, though, why and what was responsible for that and if it will not come back.

Comment 8 Bas Mevissen 2015-06-23 10:29:54 UTC
Issue seems to have gone away in FC22 as well.

Comment 9 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 10:54:31 UTC
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