debian:/home/dave# thunar
Thunar: Failed to connect to the D-BUS session bus: 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.
exit
stop
su



a) Why? How to fix?
b) How do I get control of the terminal again? I have to start a new one


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On 4/28/07, somethin2cool <somethin2cool@yahoo.com> wrote:
> debian:/home/dave# thunar
> Thunar: Failed to connect to the D-BUS session bus: 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.
> exit
> stop
> su
>
>
> a) Why? How to fix?
> b) How do I get control of the terminal again? I have to start a new one
>

Just answering your second question here.

Look up job control in the bash manual. Ctrl-Z will suspend the
process you've started and return you to the prompt. After that, 'bg'
will background the process. You can also background a process by
following the command line with an &.

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On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:07:20 +0100
somethin2cool <somethin2cool@yahoo.com> wrote:

> debian:/home/dave# thunar
> Thunar: Failed to connect to the D-BUS session bus: 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.
> exit
> stop
> su
>
>
>
> a) Why? How to fix?

[...]

Thunar uses dbus for interprocess communication. Is dbus installed? If
so then it will start automatically when you start X.

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