I have the same problem as David on 2008-11-28. Instead of an update, I had major, hardware-induced series of crashes. After hardware repair I saw identical problems, i.e. all D-BUS dependent applications refusing to run, all the earlier-reported symptoms, including this:
# cat etc/passwd |grep messagebus messagebus:x:102:107::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false #cat etc/group |grep messagebus messagebus:x:106:messagebus I have now hand-edited /etc/passwd, results will follow. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 Title: Fails to run lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: not owned by the messagebus group -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
