I am getting this same issue with a clean install of 10.04. ssh -c blowfish -CX u...@server thunderbird
results in the following information in a pop-up window ... Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details — 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-O3Y0oQrtAn: Connection refused) Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details — 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-O3Y0oQrtAn: Connection refused) Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details — 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-O3Y0oQrtAn: Connection refused) Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details — 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-O3Y0oQrtAn: Connection refused) Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details — 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-O3Y0oQrtAn: Connection refused) Then thunderbird opens and works, but fails to launch helper applications prompting for an application to run. When I exit and restart thunderbird the same error occurs again referring to the same file (/tmp/dbus-O3Y0oQrtAn) - there is no such file in /tmp or indeed any file with a dbus prefix. -- GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; durring ssh X11 forwarding https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367169 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
