I just got asked the following by a good friend and colleague and have  
no idea what the answer is.

Can someone help please?

Begin forwarded message:
>
>
>    In the last week or two I've started seeing an error message  
> following
> any re-boot on any of three Macs that I use (all running 10.4.11,  
> one is an
> Intel iMac, one a G5 iMac, the third is a G5 PowerMac).  It shows up  
> only in
> the first terminal or X11 window that gets opened after reboot, and  
> it says:
>
> "Failed to start message bus: Memory allocation failure in message bus
> EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon"
>
>    I also noticed that dbus had been updated in fink at around the  
> time
> this symptom appeared (present version 1.2.3-4 under "unstable"),  
> and all
> three machines got the update.  I never selected dbus for  
> installation, so
> presumably it must be there because it is a dependency of some other
> program(s).  I suspect there might be a permissions problem, as I also
> started seeing an error on my automatic backup program, which told  
> me it
> could not read the file dbus-daemon-launch-helper.  The directory  
> entry for
> this file looks like this:
>
> mac6010-3:/sw/sbin dn$ ls -al dbus-*
> -rwsr-x---   1 root  messageb  830632 Sep  4 14:38 dbus-daemon- 
> launch-helper
>
>

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