Summarising the workaround above by jmrasor, running the four commands below then relogging fixes the problem temporarily. I have to do this on every boot to get my USB attached harddrives to be recognised, which is thankfully infrequent ;).
sudo mkdir /var/run/dbus sudo chown messagebus:messagebus /var/run/dbus sudo dbus-daemon --system sudo dpkg-reconfigure hal
Summarising the workaround above by jmrasor, running the four commands below then relogging fixes the problem temporarily. I have to do this on every boot to get my USB attached harddrives to be recognised, which is thankfully infrequent ;).
sudo mkdir /var/run/dbus messagebus /var/run/dbus
sudo chown messagebus:
sudo dbus-daemon --system
sudo dpkg-reconfigure hal