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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by notTheCat@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Two days ago, I did a fresh Arch install, everything went fine, then I changed my mind about my HDD partitioning and reformatted it, and installed Arch again, the install boots okay and all, but NetworkManager was down, when I investigated it, I found out that dbus service fails to start here is what systemctl status dbus returns:

dbus-broker-launch[383]: launcher_add_services @ ../dbus-broker-35/src/launch/launcher.c +805 dbus-broker-launch[383]: launcher_run @ ../dbus-broker-35/src/launch/launcher.c +1416 dbus-broker-launch[383]: run @ ../dbus-broker-35/src/launch/main.c +152 dbus-broker-launch[383]: main @ ../dbus-broker-35/src/launch/main.c +178 dbus-broker-launch[383]: Exiting due to fatal error: -107

I've run journalctl with some filtering and found this too:

systemd-tmpfiles[327]: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 999) -> /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of var/lib/dbus systemd-tmpfiles[327]: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 999) -> /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of run/dbus

I ran ls / -l and found out that my boot partition is owned by a user named 999 and group adm (what the hell is this?)

I've tried installing dbus-daemon-units and remove dbus-broker and dbus-broker-units, now I got a different problem which was that dbus was timing out on start, so the problem might not be caused by dbus itself, I really don't want to reinstall Arch again, I'm chrooting into my install for internet connection too

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[-] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 6 points 8 months ago

Also check ls -ld / to view the permissions of / itself. Sounds like whatever happened to boot also happened to the root. A quick chown root:root / should make dbus happy. Don't recursively chown or chmod the root partition, that can result in a worse situation. Hopefully only / and /boot were affected.

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