How to get dbus Running

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From:    "Daniel47@teranews.com" <dxmm@albury.nospam.net.au>
    Newsgroups:    alt.os.linux
    Subject:    How to get dbus running??
    Date:    Sat, 11 Aug 2012 20:33:35 +1000

Several times, over the years, I've tried to do something in Mandriva 2009.0 that would require me to use e.g. Dolphin, Konqueror or Kwrite as root and all that would happen is that I would end up with a bash screen informing me

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[root@localhost daniel]# kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/klauncher
klauncher(20004) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you have started the DBUS server.
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
konqueror(20000): No ksycoca4 database available!

konqueror(20000): No ksycoca4 database available!

end quote

and then, as well, a warning screen saying, e.g.:-

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Could not delete file file:///root/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror/autosave/owned_by.
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and then, when I'm closing down for the night, I finally get my (in this case) Konqueror screen.

A Dolphin search, as user not root, shows me I have eleven "dbus" folders, but no "dbus" program file, not even in the four "DBus" (note the capitals) folders that seem to have something to do with "perl5".

Even under my MD2010.1 installation, I seem to have no dbus either!!

Anybody got any suggestions as to how I might fix my problems??

TIA

Daniel