DBus problem

[Keir]

keir at squall:~$ ps xo comm | sort -u
bash
bluetooth-apple
bonobo-activati
COMMAND
dbus-daemon
evolution-alarm
evolution-data-
evolution-excha
firefox
gconfd-2
gconf-helper
gnome-keyring-d
gnome-panel
gnome-power-man
gnome-pty-helpe
gnome-screensav
gnome-settings-
gnome-terminal
gnome-vfs-daemo
gnome-volume-ma
gvfsd
gvfsd-burn
gvfsd-trash
metacity
mixer_applet2
multiload-apple
nautilus
nm-applet
npviewer.bin
obex-data-serve
padevchooser
pidgin
ps
pulseaudio
python
rhythmbox
seahorse-agent
sort
tomboy
tracker-applet
trackerd
transmission
trashapplet
update-notifier
x-session-manag
keir at squall:~$

Cheers

Keir

2008/6/14 Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org>:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Keir <keirlawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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 at squall:~$ bluetooth-properties
>> Connecting to system bus failed: The maximum number of active
>> connections for UID 1000 has been reached
>> keir at squall:~$
>
> 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.
>
>