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   Jim Diamond to Jim Diamond   
   Re: chromium (Alien Bob version) whinage   
   26 Nov 24 12:14:09   
   
   From: zsd@jdvb.ca   
      
   On 2024-10-26 at 20:47 ADT, Jim Diamond  wrote:   
   > I am using Alien Bob's chromium chromium-130.0.6723.58-x86_64-1alien   
   > package on S64-15.0.   
   >   
   > It spits out huge number of errors like this:   
   >   
   > [11991:12010:1026/204311.343452:ERROR:bus.cc(407)] Failed to connect to the   
   bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid   
   types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix")   
   >   
   >   
   > I've googled around, but haven't been able to find any relevant articles.   
   >   
   > Does anyone here know what is causing this, and maybe even what I need to   
   > do to make chromium happy?   
   >   
   > (FWIW, chromium-126.0.6478.182-x86_64-1alien did the same thing.)   
      
   Just in case anyone comes across this in the future...   
      
   The problem was that I was starting my window manager (fvwm3) in such a way   
   that DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS was not defined.  Apparently not having this   
   environment variable defined upsets chromium to no end.   
      
                                   Jim   
      
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