Comment 6 for bug 284653

Hi,

this seems to be triggered by incorrect ownership of the following files:

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ ls -la /home/$USER/.dmrc /home/$USER/.dbus /home/$USER/.dbus/session-bus /home/$USER/.dbus/session-bus/* ; gedit /home/$USER/.dmrc /home/$USER/.dbus/session-bus/*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 thomas root 467 2008-10-18 12:12 /home/thomas/.dbus/session-bus/00e2e23118afd712ae53375648e55de3-0
-rwxrwxrwx 1 thomas thomas 28 2008-10-15 21:29 /home/thomas/.dmrc

/home/thomas/.dbus:
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 3 thomas root 4096 2008-10-03 00:57 .
drwxrwxrwx 73 thomas thomas 4096 2008-10-18 13:07 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 thomas root 4096 2008-10-03 00:57 session-bus

/home/thomas/.dbus/session-bus:
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 2 thomas root 4096 2008-10-03 00:57 .
drwxrwxrwx 3 thomas root 4096 2008-10-03 00:57 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 thomas root 467 2008-10-18 12:12 00e2e23118afd712ae53375648e55de3-0
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$

$ gedit /home/$USER/.dmrc:

[Desktop]
Session=default

$ gedit /home/$USER/.dbus/session-bus/*:

# This file allows processes on the machine with id 00e2e23118afd712ae53375648e55de3 using
# display :0.0 to find the D-Bus session bus with the below address.
# If the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable is set, it will
# be used rather than this file.
# See "man dbus-launch" for more details.
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-dWHDx14azA,guid=20fca9e97becd1bc17b26b0148f9c484
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=12489
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_WINDOWID=65011713