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linux64kb
Asked: 2018-02-13 15:37:07 +0800 CST

LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Unable to get session bus: Failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or directory) while x-forwarding

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I've set up x-forwarding on an Ubuntu 16.04.3 server and although the forwarding works, every time I start a GUI application it reports the following error in the terminal.

(<app-name>:<pid>) LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Unable to get session bus: Failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or directory)

This is obviously not critical, but it isn't working as it should.

How can I repair this?

Edit I'm mostly trying to start Firefox.

server x11-forwarding 16.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The solution to this issue was to install 'dbus-x11'.

    sudo apt-get install dbus-x11

    I came to this solution by looking for similar issues.

    I've found Pablo Saratxaga's answer on Serverfault, suggesting a script for a similar issue.

    https://serverfault.com/a/673837/409813

    I've thought it would be worth to run

    export $(dbus-launch)

    because this is the main command that the script is starting.

    The error message from the output is the following.

    The program 'dbus-launch' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: 
apt install dbus-x11

    I installed dbus-x11 and x-forwarding started to work without showing an error message.

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