dbus_bus_get_private() failed

Tue May 23 23:08:46 UTC 2017

On Tue, 23 May 2017 20:30:44 +0530, prashantkumar dhotre wrote:

>  dbus_bus_get_private() failed with error: Failed to connect to socket
> /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

Always worth comparing against the behaviour of someone else’s code,
e.g. a standard utility. Does this

    dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus \
        /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect

work?