On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Keir <<a href="mailto:keirlawson@gmail.com">keirlawson@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello, I appreciate this inst the best place to ask about what is probably a distro-specific problem, however I seem to be one of the only people experiencing this problem, and it appears to be entirely to do with dbus.  I am currrently running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 64 bit, and many dbus related applications fail to function.  For example attempting to launch bluetooth-properties produces the following error: keir@squall:~$ bluetooth-properties Connecting to system bus failed: The maximum number of active connections for UID 1000 has been reached keir@squall:~$</blockquote><div> Can you run: ps xo comm | sort -u I am guessing there is a program running as your user which created many copies of itself and connected to the system bus. </div> </div>