As to the question of how it entered the error path, I can't reproduce the issue on maverick (pasting in the code and running it on a laptop seems to work fine for me). However, from the error messages in the description:
Window manager warning: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id: Unable to load /var/lib/dbus/machine-id: Failed to open file '/var/lib/dbus/machine-id': No such file or directory) ...this seems to be suggesting your dbus service is missing. Is that a possibility? -- xvfb 1.9 and/or metacity not working on the buildds https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/632594 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to metacity in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
