this blog seems to descibe some the issues i&#39;m having. will try tonight too.<br><br><a href="http://uksysadmin.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/upgrade-to-ubuntu-11-10-problem-waiting-for-network-configuration-then-black-screen-solution/">http://uksysadmin.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/upgrade-to-ubuntu-11-10-problem-waiting-for-network-configuration-then-black-screen-solution/</a><br>
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</div>Hmm... I&#39;ll have to take that back... Last night, I was experiencing<br>
the following error:<br>
&quot;Unable to connect to the system bus: Failed to connect to socket<br>
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused&quot;<br>
<br>
Can&#39;t use that laptop anymore right now, as it no longer boots up<br>
correctly and has not network connection.<br>
<br>
I found a bug report that seems to be common for people migrating from<br>
11.04 to 11.10:<br>
 �<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/811441" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/811441</a><br>
<br>
Apparently, the changeover from /var/run and /var/lock to /run and<br>
/run/lock screwed up things. For some people, the fix described in<br>
comment #9 seemed to work:<br>
 �<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/811441/comments/9" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/811441/comments/9</a><br>
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