I also upgraded from lenny to squeeze. When I try opening one of the *-admin programs, this shows up in auth.log:
Jan 8 13:54:48 powerbook dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 4 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.80" (uid=1000 pid=4104 comm="users-admin) interface="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.Platform" member="getPlatform" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends" (uid=0 pid=3822 comm="/usr/sbin/system-tools-backends)) Also: > Is there a process like this one started? > /usr/bin/perl > /usr/share/system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m > TimeConfig > $ ps aux | grep system-tools-backends root 3822 0.0 0.2 6656 2580 ? S 13:54 0:00 /usr/sbin/system-tools-backends sudoman 8462 0.0 0.0 3648 864 pts/0 S+ 14:02 0:00 grep system-tools-backends Hope this helps. Let me know if you need any more information. -Drew