Your message dated Sun, 9 Nov 2025 18:35:21 -0500 with message-id <CAAajCMZyLfVTYbP5qScuh5tikqd=xxtywrda6ouuwnzonw0...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line closing ancient epiphany-browser bugs has caused the Debian Bug report #631449, regarding epiphany-browser: Epiphany hangs at start up, nothing displayed on screen to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: epiphany-browser Version: 2.30.6-2 Severity: important Epiphany starts but won't display on DISPLAY :0. Here are some messages from .xsession-errors: ** (epiphany-browser:23369): WARNING **: An error occurred while calling remote method: 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. (epiphany-browser:26904): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed ** (epiphany-browser:26904): WARNING **: seed_exception: Line 139 in /usr/lib/epiphany-browser/2.29/extensions/bookmark-shortcuts.js: TypeError Result of expression 'Epiphany.EphyShell' [undefined] is not an object. (epiphany-browser:26904): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed The process is running, but nothing is on screen. dbus-monitor shows method org.freedesktop.Epiphany being called I think, but no reponse. Finally I decided to kill it and get a dump, here is the backtrace: Core was generated by `epiphany-browser'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0xb7795424 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) bt #0 0xb7795424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb5b2120a in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 #2 0xb5ccc860 in g_once_init_enter_impl () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #3 0xb6cc5d78 in webkit_web_settings_get_type () from /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2 #4 0xb6cc6453 in webkit_web_settings_new () from /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2 #5 0x080c6cef in ephy_embed_prefs_init () #6 0x080c06c7 in ephy_embed_single_initialize () #7 0x080c11e3 in ?? () #8 0x08077de3 in ?? () #9 0x080c1781 in ephy_embed_shell_get_embed_single () #10 0x08080be1 in ?? () #11 0xb5d55dbc in g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #12 0xb5d570d8 in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #13 0xb5d571f7 in g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #14 0x08082171 in ephy_window_new_with_chrome () #15 0x08077217 in ephy_shell_new_tab_full () #16 0x0807684c in ?? () #17 0xb5c9ea41 in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #18 0xb5ca3252 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #19 0xb5ca3a30 in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #20 0xb5ca40f3 in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #21 0xb6215bd9 in IA__gtk_main () at /build/buildd-gtk+2.0_2.24.4-3-i386-ouUeDk/gtk+2.0-2.24.4/gtk/gtkmain.c:1256 #22 0x080722df in main () (gdb) Something extremely perplexing to me is that epiphany _does_ start in a VNC session running under a different user on the same machine! -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-interactive-2-686-pae-atom (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on: ii dbus-x11 1.4.12-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii epiphany-browser-data 2.30.6-2 Data files for the GNOME web brows ii gnome-icon-theme 2.30.3-2 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii iso-codes 3.26-1 ISO language, territory, currency, ii libavahi-client3 0.6.30-3 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common3 0.6.30-3 Avahi common library ii libavahi-gobject0 0.6.30-3 Avahi GObject library ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.12-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.94-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgconf2-4 2.32.3-2 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.23.3-3 GDK Pixbuf library ii libgirepository-1.0-1 0.10.8-1 Library for handling GObject intro ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 3.0.0-2 GNOME keyring services library ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.4-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.7-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libnotify1 [libnotify1-gt 0.5.0-2 sends desktop notifications to a n ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.8-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.10-1 Network Security Service libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-6 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libseed0 2.31.91-1+sid1 GObject JavaScript bindings for th ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-1 X11 Session Management library ii libsoup-gnome2.4-1 2.34.2-1 HTTP library implementation in C - ii libsoup2.4-1 2.34.2-1 HTTP library implementation in C - ii libwebkit-1.0-2 1.2.7-3 Web content engine library for Gtk ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-1 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-7+b1 XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends: ii ca-certificates 20110421 Common CA certificates ii evince 2.30.3-3 Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer ii yelp 2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME Versions of packages epiphany-browser suggests: ii epiphany-extensions 2.30.2-1 Extensions for Epiphany web browse -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
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