When starting f-spot I get an error as follows: 

An unhandled exception was thrown: F-Spot cannot find the Dbus session bus.  Make sure dbus is configured properly or start a new session for f-spot using "dbus-launch f-spot"

  at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] 
.NET Version: 2.0.50727.42

Assembly Version Information:

gdk-sharp (2.10.0.0)
gnome-vfs-sharp (2.16.0.0)
Mono.Addins (0.2.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.GLib (0.3.0.0)
NDesk.DBus (1.0.0.0)
System (2.0.0.0)
Mono.Posix (2.0.0.0)
atk-sharp (2.10.0.0)
gtk-sharp (2.10.0.0)
Mono.Addins.Setup (0.2.0.0)
glib-sharp (2.10.0.0)
gnome-sharp (2.16.0.0)
f-spot (0.4.0.0)
Mono.GetOptions (2.0.0.0)
mscorlib (2.0.0.0)

Platform Information: Linux 2.6.22.5-31-default x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Distribution Information:

[/etc/lsb-release]
LSB_VERSION="core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-2.0-x86_64:core-3.0-x86_64"

[/etc/SuSE-release]
openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64)
VERSION = 10.3

When starting Banshee I get a warning: 
Dbus is not available. Your environment is not properly set up to use Dbus. Please fix your environment or run Banshee through dbus-launch. 

Unable to open the session management bus.


Output of commands to check if DBUS is running:

marplar@linux-m9ta:~> sudo /etc/init.d/dbus status
Checking for service D-Bus daemon                                    running
marplar@linux-m9ta:~> env | grep DBUS
marplar@linux-m9ta:~> env | grep dbus
WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session /usr/bin/gnome