...and I think I've solved it. My IPTables rules had a default policy to drop Input packets. I didn't think to write a rule to explicitly allow all loopback traffic. Silly me. I appended the following lines to my rules and all applications are loading normally.
iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT To those still having trouble in this thread I recommend checking your IPTables rules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAMLs2h8w_s4MEZ1jNSYfqg+jXP03cOTx553A6YGnDv2=j0...@mail.gmail.com