I've been writing a shell script to handle emulating INIT for linuxonandroid, I'll post a link when I get it into beta. That'll handle any issues like this with services not being started.
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I'm having the same issue on Debian 8 Small.
~$ sudo service dbus start
Should start it. Worked on Debian 8.
I've been writing a shell script to handle emulating INIT for linuxonandroid, I'll post a link when I get it into beta. That'll handle any issues like this with services not being started.