On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 16:22 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > Apparently, that error is cause by lack of a DBUS session. I just > happened to stumble across a posting somewhere by somebody who had the > same problem. How they figured out that was the problem remains a > mystery.
It is likely that nobody else noticed this because dbus has moved into that "it is assumed to be there" tier of daemons these days. Like most GNOME components, the GNOME developers are assuming all of GNOME is available all of the time.