Comment 2 for bug 665193

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:28:10 -0000, Richard Bössen <email address hidden> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Hello!
>
> I have a paid account since more than half a year. After a period of
> very slow syncing it worked on Ubuntu 10.04. After upgrading to Ubuntu
> 10.10 it is not working at all even after reinstall with complete remove
> of all settings and folders.
>
> The status of U1 in Ubuntu One Preferences ist "unknown" and im terminal
> the following appeared:
>
> richie@richie-desktop:~$ u1sdtool -s
>
> Oops, an error ocurred:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> Failure: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: 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.
>
> Could you please make it working again? It is very sad.

you'll sometimes get a dbus timeout during startup (or if syncdaemon is
particularly loaded, e.g. if you untar something very big). The log
shows syncdaemon working OK, just not connecting (there's an SRU that
fixes the bug re it not connecting automatically).