As a companion to our “Restarting Haldaemon from the Command Line” piece (coming in handy after software update where you get those annoying ConfigServer firewall warnings “Suspicious process running under user dbus”), here’s what you need to do to restart dbus from the command line:
/etc/init.d/messagebus restart
Note: Your server configuration may vary.
1? I’m pretty sure the numeral 1 won’t restart dbus. Try: service messagebus restart