crouton: Error When Starting Xfce Linux Session (dbus error)

Please paste the output of the following command here: sudo startxfce4
```Failed to start message bus: Failed to open "/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/dbus_contexts": No such file or directory
EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon
/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: 1: /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc: ssh-agent: not found

** (xfce4-session:19058): CRITICAL **: Unable to contact D-Bus session bus: Unknown error

** (xfce4-session:19058): CRITICAL **: Unable to contact D-Bus session bus: //bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon

#### Please describe your issue: I just recently installed crouton, but when attempting to open a Linux session receive the error above. Please help.


#### If known, describe the steps to reproduce the issue: Run xfce on Samsung Chromebook 3

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Dennis,

Thanks, that was it. I already had crouton integration, I didn’t have the correct start command.

Regards, Hasaf

Hasaf on Jan 28, 2017

@AlexObliv2029,

No problem.

chronos@localhost /mnt/stateful_partition/crouton/chroots $ sudo croutonversion

Don’t use the ‘sudo’ prefix inside your chroot for crouton stuff, that’ll get you into trouble with permissions, just use ‘sudo’ outside your chroot for crouton stuff in your crosh shell.

Let’s please start over with something that works better.

First of all delete the chroots you’ve started that don’t work using -

cd /usr/local/chroots ; sudo delete-chroot * ; cd

Then instead of ‘precise’, we’ll install a newer release but we won’t encrypt it to make it simpler, if you really want to encrypt it you can do that later, use this -

sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -r trusty -t xiwi,xorg,xfce,keyboard

Then install the ‘crouton integration’ extension from the Chrome Webstore.

Now you can start your xfce4 desktop in a number of ways -

sudo startxfce4 (that will launch in a window via ‘xiwi’, the default)
sudo startxfce4 -X xiwi-fullscreen (that will launch fullscreen via ‘xiwi’)
sudo startxfce4 -X xiwi-tab (that will launch in a browser tab via ‘xiwi’ - my favorite)
sudo startxfce4 -X xorg (that will launch in a separate screen via ‘xorg’)

Please note, the last option using ‘xorg’ is having some temporary difficulties (blackscreens) so it may not work for you without some extra effort.

Hope this helps, -DennisL

DennisLfromGA on Jan 3, 2017

hello dennis I’m sorry I want to ask my password can not be pressed in ubuntu how to solve it? I want to use ubuntu to install application on my chromebook can you help me? can i Ask your facebook address

zaky46 on Jun 5, 2017

Thank you, all worked for me as well

jhut1971 on Jan 4, 2017

Thanks Dennis! That worked perfectly for me, I am now up and running. Thanks again for your patience and help!!

@AlexObliv2029 @jhut1971, I hope this works for you!

10BaseTwo on Jan 4, 2017