Surprise!

[Nils Kassube]

Jerry Lapham wrote:
> When I booted my desktop into Kubuntu 12.04 today I got the following:
> 
> Could not start D-Bus.  Can you call qdbus?
> 
> When I clicked on Okay, it took me to the log-on screen, which I
> normally bypass.
> 
> It all worked OK yesterday.  What could have changed overnight?

Wrong question. I'd rather ask, what have you done with the machine 
between the previous boot and shutdown. What is the answer to the 
question if you can call qdbus? And could you log in when you were at 
the login screen?

I remember that I have seen your error message when I upgraded from 
10.04 to the development version of 12.04. The upgrade failed for some 
reason and I had to manually install the package qdbus. But I don't 
think you could uninstall that package without removing a lot of other 
packages, so IMHO it isn't likely that the package vanished somehow.


Nils