aptd crashed with DBusException in call_blocking(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.208" is not allowed to own the service "org.debian.apt" due to security policies in the configuration file

[Kenny Strawn]

Can't load Software Center in 11.10 at all because of this crash (the APT daemon fails to start, exiting with a Python traceback)...

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: aptdaemon 0.43+bzr697
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 23 23:54:24 2011
DesktopFile: /usr/share/aptdaemon/aptdaemon.desktop
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.2)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/aptd
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/aptd']
SourcePackage: aptdaemon
Title: aptd crashed with DBusException in call_blocking(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.208" is not allowed to own the service "org.debian.apt" due to security policies in the configuration file
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Apport retracing service (apport)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this crash and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular crash has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #450662, so is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.