Comment 6 for bug 25931

The /etc/init.d/dbus start output looks like dbus and hal wren't running before. Can you please answer to this bit:

> > /ect/rc2.d/s12dbus -> ../init.d/dbus
> Is that indeed a small 's' before the 12? It should be a capital 'S'. Or was this just a typo? (You can
> copy&paste from the terminal to the web browser).

If that's indeed a lower-case 's', then this would explain why dbus is not running (but I have no idea why it should be a small s, unless you manually changed this).