Update and lost of Internet access

**tuxconvert** · 09-23-2009

Guys

I have just completed running MCC update and now I can not run Firefox or Epiphany. A would greatly appreciate any assistance in correcting this problem!:confused:

**MikeTbob** · 09-24-2009

Open a terminal or konsole window and launch Firefox or Epiphany from the command line, you should see an error message in the terminal or konsole window, Please post that error message here, maybe someone can help you find out what's wrong.

Code:

firefox

Code:

epiphany

**tuxconvert** · 09-25-2009

When firefox is entered at the prompt -- it times out after some period of time.

When epiphany is entered, I receive the following:

Code:

(epiphany:10318): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session 

manager:
None of the authentication protocols specified are supported.

** (epiphany:10318): WARNING **: Unable to connect to session 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.

**MikeTbob** · 09-26-2009

Strange, I think it may be dbus.
Try this as root or sudo, whichever is needed.

Code:

/etc/init.d/dbus restart

Post Any errors you get.

**ongte** · 09-27-2009

Did you upgrade to FF 3.5 through the backports or other 3rd party repo?
This is a broken dependency problem usually.
Try running again # urpmi --auto-update

**tuxconvert** · 09-27-2009

Guys, I appreciate your assistance! Firefox and Epiphany still do not wont to cooperate with me. BTW, I was not upgrading to FF3.5. Error messages are as follows:

HTML Code:

[root@localhost /]# /etc/init.d/dbus restart
-bash: /etc/init.d/dbus: No such file or directory

[root@localhost /]# ps -ef | grep dbus
13        1363     1  0 10:54 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon --system
nmorris   1773     1  0 10:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session --sh-syntax
nmorris   1774     1  0 10:54 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 6 --print-address 9 --session
root     20600  4742  0 11:23 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color dbus

**reed9** · 09-27-2009

Try this

Code:

dbus-launch epiphany

**MikeTbob** · 09-27-2009

Does Mandriva not use /etc/init.d/ ? Is there anything in that directory?

Code:

ls /etc/init.d/

**tuxconvert** · 09-28-2009

Guys

Thanks for all your suggestions, especially reed9. After performing:

Code:

dbus-launch epiphany

and

dbus-launch firefox

I am once again able to access the Internet. Once again, thanks to you all -- I was almost about to reinstall from scratch!

**reed9** · 09-28-2009

That does speak to a deeper problem, since that workaround isn't normally needed.

What desktop environment are you using? GNOME, KDE, other?

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