Jim,

Thanks for the update.

-connie

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Jim Green wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I recently posted the following query on this list
>
>> I'm running a freshly installed sl51 and on login get a very annoying
>> message from the gnome-settings-manager about being unable to
>> contact to socket: /tmp/dbus-kjsdfhjd : connection refused.
>>  :
>
> but had no replies -- I post a solution for the sake of the archive.
>
> Further research on Google revealed that this problem can be caused
> by an old bug in dbus, which introduced a race condition on pipes
> being closed at the time a process wanted to write to them.
>
> I tried to update dbus within SL51 but found a cascade of dependencies
> made this "too interesting" to follow through.  A clean install of SL54 on
> the same hardware (and with the same corporate setup) fixes the
> problem for me.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jim
>