[rocket357]

You need to start dbus:

# /etc/rc.d/dbus_daemon start

Then /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket will be created properly:

# ls -l /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket                                        
srwxrwxrwx  1 root  _dbus  0 Dec 29 12:06 /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket