It did not seem to matter that the launcher was group as 'messagebus'. It still generated the error even after I changed the group.
In my case it was a fresh install of Ubuntu Lucid server and followed by an install of ubuntu-desktop. Those were the main packages. -- Fails to run lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: not owned by the messagebus group https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 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