Ho do you start virt-manager?
From the command line.
Do you start virt-manager as root or a regular user?
Ordinary user.
Do you have dbus-x11 installed? (please use reportbug next time)
Yes. > How did that happen that the users dbus files belong to root? They do NOT belong to root, as I said in the original bug report. > Does it help, if you move the /home/richard/.dbus directory away? Yes, that brings things back to life. It seems that dbus is overly trusting of its own old state files, then? ttfn/rjk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org