I was affected by this bug, and I can confirm that on the remote machine the ~/.dbus directory was owned by root. By changing the owner to "myself" the problem is solved.
For some reason some people got the ~/.dbus ownership unwillingly changed, can't tell in which package, but this is certainly a bug. The remote machine started as a 9.04 and was upgraded to 9.10. For you interest, the local machine (which has correct permissions "by default") started as a 8.04 and was upgraded to 9.10. Maybe 9.04 was shipped with this error? -- GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; durring ssh X11 forwarding https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367169 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gconf in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
