Update and lost of Internet access

[tuxconvert]

I am running Gnome 2.26.1

[reed9]

I'm not entirely sure why it started happening, but as a workaround so you don't have to launch things from the console with dbus-launch, you can create a new session as follows.

Open a new file:

gksudo /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-dbus.desktop

Paste the following into it and save.

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=GNOME with D-BUS
Comment=GNOME Desktop with D-BUS support
Exec=dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session
TryExec=/usr/bin/dbus-launch
Icon=
Type=Application

then

sudo chmod -v 644 /usr/share/xsessions/gnome-dbus.desktop

Turn off autologin if you have it, restart your xsession, from the login screen, change the session to gnome-dbus.

[tuxconvert]

AFter executing dbus-launch, from then on, I am able to activate firefox or Epiphany by clicking on the icon! Not sure myself what happened -- my best recollection:

1. Informed that updates were available for system
2. checking the updates saw nothing for concern (accepted all)
3. The rest is History

At the very least, I can not thank you guys enough for all the help!

Tuxconvert

[reed9]

Glad it all worked out!