Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 217254
epiphany refuses to start over a network connection
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:50 EST
Description of problem: Login to a remote such that a display is really happening on a local machine and try to start epiphany. This results in the following: ** (epiphany:27361): WARNING **: Unable to connect to session bus: Unable to determine the address of the message bus (try 'man dbus-launch' and 'man dbus-daemon' for help) Doh! There is no "seesion bus" as there is no session on a remote. If that would be only WARNING that would be not so bad, but this is followed by a display of an alert which says more or less the same thing, plus an irrelevant in the context "advice", and dismissing that alert terminates an attempt. Is epiphany truly so misdesigned that it cannot run without a "session bus" possibly with some functionality, relevant only in a local session, missing? Luckily at least some other browsers do not suffer from that disease and yes - there are situations when this functionality is really needed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): epiphany-2.16.0-5.fc6
epiphany --private-instance
Thanks! I did look at 'epiphany --help' and 'man epiphany' but both these sources say: -p, --private-instance Start a private instance or --private-instance Start a private instance and that is it. I have to confess that I would never guess that '--private-instance' mens "do not try to connect to a session bus". Maybe documentation could make that a tad more explicit? This indeed works.