diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/dbus/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/dbus/default.nix
index 8f8766fb6cf..12793859a81 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/dbus/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/dbus/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 { stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, expat, libX11, libICE, libSM, useX11 ? true }:
 
 let
-  version = "1.2.24";
+  version = "1.4.1";
   
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "0j2wb79kndq4b1qqr59n1g6s0lm7yp6r9ny3skimadkh9a7p8b7i";
+    sha256 = "1gc375cz6qwr32kl3vdhqll4k0s4pp4f7isf3mffkwnhsbga18fa";
   };
 
   patches = [ ./ignore-missing-includedirs.patch ];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 8c0b8ee45cd..c74cfa8ac81 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2876,7 +2876,7 @@ let
   db45 = callPackage ../development/libraries/db4/db4-4.5.nix { };
 
   dbus = callPackage ../development/libraries/dbus {
-    useX11 = true; # !!! `false' doesn't build
+    useX11 = true;
   };
 
   dbus_glib = makeOverridable (import ../development/libraries/dbus-glib) {