Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/25931
Comment:
Im having the same problem. My breezy was
a clean install. I ran the commands you listed
and these are the results
$ ps -p $(< /var/run/dbus/pid)
said the pid file was not found
pidof hald
just returned the command prompt
ls -l /etc/rc2.d/*dbus*