diff --git a/packages/webui/src/public/bus.js b/packages/webui/src/public/bus.js
index 93df4371..f0261468 100644
--- a/packages/webui/src/public/bus.js
+++ b/packages/webui/src/public/bus.js
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@
   }
   const failTitle = err => err.status === 403 ? 'Bus refused the read' : ['not-configured', 'no-bus-host'].includes(err.code) ? 'No bus to read' : 'The read failed';
   // A refusal fails closed: no kept data, the code in mono. Any other failure keeps the last read, labelled with its time.
-  const refusal = err => err.status === 403 || ['not-configured', 'no-bus-host'].includes(err.code);
+  const refusal = err => err.status === 403;
   // After a refusal nothing read before is shown anywhere: not in a view, the palette or the Inbox count.
   function forget() { last.clear(); inboxCount = null; }
   const failedView = err => `${head(failTitle(err))}<div class="banner ${refusal(err) ? 'ref' : 'err'}" role="alert"><p>${refusal(err) ? `<b>refused: <code>${txt(err.code)}</code>.</b> ` : ''}${why(err)} Console shows nothing rather than a guess. Nothing was written.</p>${retry}</div>${empty('Nothing to show.', refusal(err) ? 'The view stays empty until the problem above is fixed.' : 'Read again, or come back when the bus answers.')}`;