Unable to start terminal server: Unable to connect to D-BUS message daemon when using Terminal

[Benedikt Meurer]

Richard Hubbell wrote:
> I see a dbus-daemon-1 running.  But I know very little about d-bus, I
> guess it's similar, at a high level to IPC.

D-Bus is a system for desktop inter-client IPC.

> Anyway what's the error
> for?

It tells you that the per-session D-Bus message daemon isn't running. 
See the Terminal documentation (section FAQ) for further details.

> Richard

HTH,
Benedikt