Get dbus error when opening file chooser in VirtualBox!

When I’m in the VirtualBox GUI and under “settings” and I click to add an ISO file, it hangs for a few seconds and then on top of the file chooser shows the error:

Could not start process Cannot talk to klauncher: Not connected to D-Bus server.

I am using openSUSE 12.1 and when I check dbus version, it’s only 1.5.8-2.6.1 so I know it’s not this: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=51960

Any idea what causes this and how to fix it?

How about his: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/479284-virtualbox-4-2-cannot-talk-klauncher-not-connected-d-bus-server.html ?

Thanks! That appears to be exactly the issue. Looking at the bug report, it looks like this will be fixed in a future update.

If I use the packages with the fix that are mentioned here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783657#c26 when the update finally comes out in the normal repository, will I have to manually switch back to get it?

The better would be to install it from Index of /repositories/home:/thoenig:/branches:/openSUSE:/12.2:/Update/standard as mentionned and remove the repository from your repository list. The dbus packages will show up in red, you will be able to update them when a new version appear in the normal update repository.

Thanks. So to be sure the steps are:

  1. Install the repo Index of /repositories/home:/thoenig:/branches:/openSUSE:/12.2:/Update/standard

  2. Change to use the dbus packages from that new repo

  3. Remove that repo

Is that right?