The coincidentally appended lines > console-kit-daemon[2475]: WARNING: Couldn't read /proc/2474/environ: > Failed to open file '/proc/2474/environ': No such file or directory turned out to be http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523372 So now all I want to know is what to do about X: Libgcrypt warning: missing initialization - please fix the application