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Bug 1477879

Summary: accessibility support is broken in MATE session if using lightdm-gtk greeter
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Wolfgang Ulbrich <fedora>
Component: lightdm-gtkAssignee: Alternative GTK desktop environments <alt-gtk-de-sig>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 26CC: alt-gtk-de-sig, cwickert, fedora, rdieter
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Last Closed: 2017-08-12 18:25:19 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Wolfgang Ulbrich 2017-08-03 06:50:48 UTC
Description of problem:

We have a lot of warnings in logs about:


** (caja:3927): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-B4dBhkfWzH: Connection refused

** (mate-power-manager:3939): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-B4dBhkfWzH: Connection refused

** (mate-volume-control-applet:3941): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-B4dBhkfWzH: Connection refused

** (xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update:3958): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-B4dBhkfWzH: Connection refused

** (abrt:3948): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-B4dBhkfWzH: Connection refused

** (mate-screensaver:3966): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-B4dBhkfWzH: Connection refused

** (polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1:3973): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-B4dBhkfWzH: Connection refused

** (caja:4101): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-B4dBhkfWzH: Connection refused

** (pluma:4112): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-B4dBhkfWzH: Connection refused

There is a fix by upstream which is in pending state but not releases now.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm-gtk-greeter/+bug/1670933

You will also find a detailed description of the problem there.
Applying the pending commit fixes the problem for me.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2017-08-03 08:33:12 UTC
lightdm-gtk-2.0.2-5.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-659994b672

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2017-08-04 00:24:20 UTC
lightdm-gtk-2.0.2-5.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-659994b672

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2017-08-12 18:25:19 UTC
lightdm-gtk-2.0.2-5.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.