[SOLVED] Pulseaudio / DBus Issues after Updating

BenjB83 · 2025-05-12 23:53:10

Hi all,

I updated my system yesterday with no issues. Today I did another update and everything went fine, except for restarting the systemd dbus service.

( 8/13) Reloading system bus configuration...
Job for dbus-broker.service failed.
See "systemctl status dbus-broker.service" and "journalctl -xeu dbus-broker.service" for details.
error: command failed to execute correctly

Output of

❯ systemctl status dbus-broker.service

is this:

● dbus-broker.service - D-Bus System Message Bus
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-broker.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2025-05-10 08:40:59 -04; 2 days ago
 Invocation: 65d9694aaead400293af1af05a462074
TriggeredBy: ● dbus.socket
       Docs: man:dbus-broker-launch(1)
    Process: 984256 ExecReload=/usr/bin/busctl call org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus
 org.freedesktop.DBus ReloadConfig (code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE)
   Main PID: 589 (dbus-broker-lau)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 9281)
     Memory: 7.7M (peak: 9.5M, swap: 920K, swap peak: 3.1M, zswap: 10.3K)
        CPU: 1min 14.885s
     CGroup: /system.slice/dbus-broker.service
             ├─589 /usr/bin/dbus-broker-launch --scope system --audit
             └─590 dbus-broker --log 4 --controller 9 --machine-id 98add83013c94e8
eb19208053f65f501 --max-bytes 536870912 --max-fds 4096 --max-matches 131072 --audit

May 12 18:28:15 buskeit dbus-broker-launch[589]: Looking up NSS user entry for 'pulse'...
May 12 18:28:15 buskeit dbus-broker-launch[589]: NSS returned no entry for 'pulse'
May 12 18:28:15 buskeit dbus-broker-launch[589]: Invalid user-name in /usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-system.conf +27: user="pulse"
May 12 18:28:15 buskeit dbus-broker-launch[589]: Noticed file-system modification, trigger reload.
May 12 18:28:15 buskeit dbus-broker-launch[589]: Looking up NSS user entry for 'pulse'...
May 12 18:28:15 buskeit dbus-broker-launch[589]: NSS returned no entry for 'pulse'

Nothing has changed on the system. I have not added or removed any users and nothing has been uninstalled or modified, other than running pacman -Syu.

Any help or ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Ben

Last edited by BenjB83 (2025-05-13 00:05:53)

BenjB83 · 2025-05-13 00:05:27

UPDATE:

I think, I have fixed it. I did reinstall dbus, dbus-broker and pulseaudio, then restarted the syste,. The service starts and the system is working, despite showing an error:

May 12 19:58:21 buskeit systemd[1]: Started D-Bus System Message Bus.
May 12 19:58:21 buskeit dbus-broker-launch[589]: Ready
May 12 19:58:23 buskeit dbus-broker-launch[589]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.home1' failed: The systemd unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' could not be found.
May 12 19:58:33 buskeit dbus-broker-launch[589]: Activation request for 'org.freedesktop.ModemManager1' failed: The systemd unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service' could not be found.

I have no clue, if this warning was there before, because I didn't check this for quite some time, since I never had any issues.

So, for now, I gonna mark this solved.

Thanks.

Arch Linux

#1 2025-05-12 23:53:10

[SOLVED] Pulseaudio / DBus Issues after Updating

#2 2025-05-13 00:05:27

Re: [SOLVED] Pulseaudio / DBus Issues after Updating

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