Has a similar experience to original poster. Upgraded from hardy to ibex and all completed successfully, initially.
Rebooted. hal failed to start due to dbus. `dpkg --configure hal` failed due to configuring of dbus required `dpkg --configure dbus` failed due to: "Warning: The home dir /var/run/dbus you specified can't be accessed: No such file or directory The system user `messagebus' already exists. Exiting. chown: cannot access `/var/run/dbus': No such file or directory" As root simply did `mkdir /var/run/dbus` and reran `dpkg --configure dbus` and all was fine Ran `dpkg --cofnigure -a` and all packages were successfully configured. So maybe a line has been missed somewhere on the lines of: if [ ! -d /var/run/dbus ] then mkdir /var/run/dbus fi Just a thought. phantomjinx -- dpkg --configure dbus - error 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295602 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs