Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module” Unable to connect to dbus - Sublime text

Question

I\'m working on a remote server (Ubuntu 14.04) through SSH -X. I have installed Sublime Text and when I try to open it I get

Gtk-Message: Failed to load mod         


        

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk*

if you run that install it will get 120+ mb of libs, mostly. to get rid of that module error, you only need to install 70k. i fixed the same error with this single package:

sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module

that should do the trick. if that doesnt work try installing only the canberra libs, you don't need all those Xlibs, or you'd have them already ;) here's just canberra packages apt listed:

libcanberra-gtk-common-dev libcanberra-gtk-dev libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk-module-dbg libcanberra-gtk0 libcanberra-gtk0-dbg libcanberra-gtk3-0-dbg libcanberra-gtk3-dev libcanberra-gtk3-module-dbg libcanberra-dev

10 total packages, instead of over 100 packages with that * wildcard. save space, boot time, sys speed etc, always, if you can :)

Answer 2

On Debian Stretch:

sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module

This will install:

The following additional packages will be installed: libcanberra-gtk0
The following NEW packages will be installed: libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0

Answer 3

As I found at the end of this thread, it appears to be a problem with the libcanberra dependencies, I stumbled upon this and the solution worked for me on Sublime Text 2/Debian 8. So try running this:

sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk*

This got rid of the GTK message, but the "Unable to connect to dbus..." stuff disappeared when I executed sublime as a non-root user.