Investigating this today, I noticed these messages in /var/log/daemon.log:
Feb 7 08:11:27 thor accounts-daemon[2299]: ** (accounts-daemon:2299): CRITICAL **: Duplicate object at path /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User276585368. Feb 7 08:11:27 thor accounts-daemon[2299]: ** (accounts-daemon:2299): CRITICAL **: Duplicate object at path /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User276585368. This led me to the problem and fix relatively quickly: diff -up -ru accountsservice-0.6.15.orig/src/user.c accountsservice-0.6.15/src/user.c --- accountsservice-0.6.15.orig/src/user.c 2012-02-07 10:09:11.000000000 +0100 +++ accountsservice-0.6.15/src/user.c 2012-02-07 09:04:53.000000000 +0100 @@ -731,7 +731,7 @@ compute_object_path (User *user) { gchar *object_path; - object_path = g_strdup_printf ("/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User%ld", + object_path = g_strdup_printf ("/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User%lld", (gint64) user->uid); return object_path; -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org