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datman

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Registered: 2016-06-01

Posts: 4

Failed to boot after switch to dbus-broker

I updated my system yesterday and selected the default to switch to dbus-broker. After the upgrade, it failed to boot.

Errors on boot:

Jan 12 10:10:21 dbus-broker-launch[710]: Invalid XML in /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.rnd2.cpupower_gui.helper.conf +1: no element found
Jan 12 10:10:21 dbus-broker-launch[710]: ERROR run @ ../dbus-broker-35/src/launch/main.c +152: Return code 1
Jan 12 10:10:21 dbus-broker-launch[710]:       main @ ../dbus-broker-35/src/launch/main.c +178
Jan 12 10:10:21 dbus-broker-launch[710]: Exiting due to fatal error: -131
Jan 12 10:10:21 systemd[1]: dbus-broker.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jan 12 10:10:21 systemd[1]: dbus-broker.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jan 12 10:10:21 systemd[1]: Failed to start D-Bus System Message Bus.

I had to boot a rescue USB, chroot, install dbus-daemon-units and then remove dbus-broker-units and dbus-broker to allow it to boot again.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Failed to boot after switch to dbus-broker

What, exactly, is /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.rnd2.cpupower_gui.helper.conf? That file isn't in the repos.

datman

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Registered: 2016-06-01

Posts: 4

Re: Failed to boot after switch to dbus-broker

I just checked and it is a zero byte file installed Jan 2021. It looks like it came from this package:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cpupower-gui

Which is no longer installed.

Last edited by datman (2024-01-12 00:23:55)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Failed to boot after switch to dbus-broker

zero bytes, and I'm assuming unowned (pacman -Qo <file>)? If so, delete it.

Edit: I would also point you to https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/lostfiles/ to see if you have other old files lying around for some reason.

Last edited by Scimmia (2024-01-12 00:29:06)

datman

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Registered: 2016-06-01

Posts: 4

Re: Failed to boot after switch to dbus-broker

I deleted it, I guess it should be safe to switch to dbus-broker now.

Thanks for the lostfiles tip, I found a few more stray ones around the place.