How does a home user fix a broken DBUS ?

[Havoc Pennington]

Rod Butcher wrote:
> /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends  exists 
> with contents :-
> 
> [D-BUS Service]
> Name=org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends
> Exec=/usr/bin/system-tools-backends
> 
> So this is supposed to be an autostartable service, right ? If it 
> exists, why the error message ?
> What exactly is the calling program trying to do here ?

The calling program is trying to talk to the program 
/usr/bin/system-tool-backends

Perhaps you compiled dbus to look in /usr/local/share or something?

Havoc