Comment 115 for bug 25931

I encountered this error on a Debian Etch installation on a MacBook, dist upgrading to the Testing version.

* Reloading system message bus config... Failed to open connection to system message bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "force-reload" failed.

Repeated retries at apt-get dist-upgrade failed with the same error until I manually restarted dbus by:

/etc/init.d/dbus restart

Then, the dist-upgrade worked fine. And the machine works as expected without any dbus/hal issues there after.