--- /dev/null
+Fixes errors such as this in the rootfs generation:
+
+(gconftool-2.real:10095): GConf-WARNING **: Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:
+Using X11 for dbus-daemon autolaunch was disabled at compile time, set your DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS instead
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
+
+From b0895e1998ebc83ab030ec0f17c0685439f5b404 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com>
+Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:57:34 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] dbus: Don't spew to console when unable to connect to dbus
+ daemon
+
+Instead pass the error up for the caller to decide what to do.
+
+This prevent untrappable warning messages from showing up at the
+console if gconftool --makefile-install-rule is called.
+---
+ gconf/gconf-dbus.c | 24 ++++++++++++------------
+ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/gconf/gconf-dbus.c b/gconf/gconf-dbus.c
+index 5610fcf..048e3ea 100644
+--- a/gconf/gconf-dbus.c
++++ b/gconf/gconf-dbus.c
+@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static GHashTable *engines_by_db = NULL;
+ static GHashTable *engines_by_address = NULL;
+ static gboolean dbus_disconnected = FALSE;
+
+-static gboolean ensure_dbus_connection (void);
++static gboolean ensure_dbus_connection (GError **error);
+ static gboolean ensure_service (gboolean start_if_not_found,
+ GError **err);
+ static gboolean ensure_database (GConfEngine *conf,
+@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ gconf_engine_detach (GConfEngine *conf)
+ }
+
+ static gboolean
+-ensure_dbus_connection (void)
++ensure_dbus_connection (GError **err)
+ {
+ DBusError error;
+
+@@ -392,7 +392,9 @@ ensure_dbus_connection (void)
+
+ if (dbus_disconnected)
+ {
+- g_warning ("The connection to DBus was broken. Can't reinitialize it.");
++ g_set_error (err, GCONF_ERROR,
++ GCONF_ERROR_NO_SERVER,
++ "The connection to DBus was broken. Can't reinitialize it.");
+ return FALSE;
+ }
+
+@@ -402,7 +404,10 @@ ensure_dbus_connection (void)
+
+ if (!global_conn)
+ {
+- g_warning ("Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:\n%s", error.message);
++ g_set_error (err, GCONF_ERROR,
++ GCONF_ERROR_NO_SERVER,
++ "Client failed to connect to the D-BUS daemon:\n%s",
++ error.message);
+
+ dbus_error_free (&error);
+ return FALSE;
+@@ -431,13 +436,8 @@ ensure_service (gboolean start_if_not_found,
+
+ if (global_conn == NULL)
+ {
+- if (!ensure_dbus_connection ())
+- {
+- g_set_error (err, GCONF_ERROR,
+- GCONF_ERROR_NO_SERVER,
+- _("No D-BUS daemon running\n"));
+- return FALSE;
+- }
++ if (!ensure_dbus_connection (err))
++ return FALSE;
+
+ g_assert (global_conn != NULL);
+ }
+@@ -2512,7 +2512,7 @@ gconf_ping_daemon (void)
+ {
+ if (global_conn == NULL)
+ {
+- if (!ensure_dbus_connection ())
++ if (!ensure_dbus_connection (NULL))
+ {
+ return FALSE;
+ }
+--
+1.7.10.4
+