<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'> <div> <font size="2">I tried rebooting and noticed that the modification date hadn't changed for the file located within /home/Louise/.dbus/session-bus/ after the reboot -- would that fit with a case in which two dbus instances are started by mistake? Do you have any specific ideas about how I can address or troubleshoot the issue?</font><br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org><br> To: Louise Baldwin <louiserbaldwin@aol.com><br> Cc: dbus <dbus@lists.freedesktop.org><br> Sent: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 6:48 pm<br> Subject: Re: How to interact with existing dbus session through sudo?<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_04a11ac9-feeb-49d4-9c8c-2e855752177e" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"><tt> There's something wrong with the way that your session bus was started. I've seen some incorrect configurations in Linux distributions that start two busses by accident and no one realises the mistake. </tt> </div>  </div> </font>