Hi folks, I've got a strange problem with my wife's 8.04 desktop - when she logs in she gets just a blank screen. The problem is that gnome-panel and nautilus are not starting normally, but these seem to be symptoms rather than the cause. I can start them manually and they mostly work, until they try to access dbus and then they sometimes just exit again. If i try to open (for example) the "Sessions" control panel, it gives a message on standard output: could not connect to the session manager. Clicking on the exit button kills gnome-panel, but doesn't bring up the logout/shutdown/etc. panel. When i login as my user id instead of hers, it works normally.
When i do a ps -ef|grep dbus, the system dbus shows up as user 104, instead of messagebus, which is what is listed for that uid in /etc/passwd. If i change the name of the user from 'messagebus' to 'dbus', it appears normally in ps -ef listings. It appears the system can't take user ids longer than 8 characters... Weird Any thoughts? Paul
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