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nik92

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Registered: 2019-10-31

Posts: 6

Unable to use [timedate/hostname/resolve]ctl

I have a new arch install with a window manager set up.
The time thats displayed is incorrect.

Upon running
    sudo timedatectl
or
    sudo hostnamectl
I get the error:
Failed to query system properties: The name org.freedesktop.timedate1/hostname1(respectively) was not provided by any .service files

When I run
    timedatectl status
I get the error
    Failed to query server: The name org.freedesktop.hostname1 was not provided by any .service files

I enabled systemd-timesyncd. It created the links.
When I run
    systemctl start systemd-timesyncd
It gives me an error and Failed to start Network Time Synchronization,

Any advise on how I can go about fixing this?

UPDATE:
I cant seem to start any of the services that control things like timedate, resolve, hostname, etc.
I have been looking for causes and ways to debug, can someone point me in the right direction?

Cheers

Last edited by nik92 (2020-02-07 05:12:08)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,056

Re: Unable to use [timedate/hostname/resolve]ctl

I have a new arch install with a window manager set up.

How exactly? If the answer is "xinitrc", did you see the second note in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xinitrc ?

Output of

echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
stat $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,399

Re: Unable to use [timedate/hostname/resolve]ctl

Is your DBUS session hosed? How do you log in and where do you log in and if you do use X how do you start it? Post a journal of your current boot

systemctl status dbus
sudo journalctl -b

Last edited by V1del (2020-02-07 09:12:28)