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cannot start networkmanager

24 December 2024, 08:26:14

Hello, new to artix linux, yesterday I reinstalled artix and I cannot seem to get networkmanager working. Am I doing something wrong? Please let me know.


[tree@earth ~]$ nmcli
Error: Could not create NMClient object: Could not connect: No such file or directory.
[tree@earth ~]$ nmtui
Could not contact NetworkManager: Could not connect: No such file or directory.
[tree@earth ~]$ ls /etc/runit/runsudir/default
agetty-tty1 agetty-tty2 agetty-tty3 agetty-tty4 agetty-tty5 agetty-tty6 dbus logind NetworkManager udevd
[tree@earth ~]$ pacman -Q | grep net
libnetfilter_conntrack 1.0.9-2
libnfnetlink 1.0.2-2
nettle 3.10-1
networkmanager 1.50.0-1
networkmanager-runit 20180226-3
[tree@earth 1$ sudo sv up NetworkManager
[tree@earth 1$ sudo sv up dbus
[tree@earth ~]$ nmcli
Error: Could not create NMClient object: Could not connect: No such file or directory.
[tree@earth ~]$ nmtui
Could not contact NetworkManager: Could not connect: No such file or directory.
[tree@earth"]$ sudo sv start NetworkManager
ok: run: NetworkManager: (pid 2686) Os
[tree@earth ~]$ sudo sv start dbus
timeout: down: dbus: Os, normally up, want up
[tree@earth ~]$

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #1 – 24 December 2024, 11:44:53

These commands are from the dbus startup script for runit:

dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/etc/machine-id
[ -d /run/dbus ] || install -m755 -g 81 -o 81 -d /run/dbus
exec dbus-daemon --system --nofork --nopidfile

Run these manually as root to see what fails and the related error.

artist

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #2 – 24 December 2024, 13:06:16

here's what I got


[earth ~]# dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/etc/machine-id
[earth ~]# install -m755 -g 81 -o 81 -d /run/dbus
[earth ~]# exec dbus-daemon --system --no-fork --nopidfile
dbus-daemon [--version] [--session] [--system] [--config-file=FILE] [--print-address[=DESCRIPTOR]] [--print-pid[=DESCRIPTOR]] [--introspect] [--address=ADDRESS 1 [--nopidfile] [--nosyslog] [--syslog] [--syslog-only] [--no fork] [--fork] [--systemd-activation]
Artix Linux 6.6.67-1-lts (tty1)
earth login: root
Password:
[earth ~]#

it just logged me out I guess?

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #3 – 24 December 2024, 14:26:31

There's a typo, no-fork vs nofork, just run:

dbus-daemon --system --nofork --nopidfile

artist

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #4 – 24 December 2024, 14:56:47

shoot! my bad, didn't notice that, anyways I've re ran all the commands and here's the new output


[earth ~]# dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/etc/machine-id
[earth ~]# install -m755 -g 81 -o 81 -d /run/dbus
[earth ~]# exec dbus-daemon --system --nofork --nopidfile
dbus-daemon[857]: Failed to start message bus: Could not get UID and GID for username "dbus"
Artix Linux 6.6.67-1-lts (tty1)
earth login:

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #5 – 24 December 2024, 15:54:45

It seems the dbus user is missing from your system.
Make sure to have or create:
- group dbus with gid 81
- user dbus with uid 81, gid 81, description 'System Message Bus', homedir /, shell /bin/nologin

artist

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #6 – 24 December 2024, 16:49:07

I have waited for more than 5 minutes but it hangs on the last command

[earth ~]# grep dbus /etc/passwd
dbus:x:81:81:System Message Bus:/:/bin/nologin
[earth # grep dbus /etc/group
dbus:x:81:
[earth ~]# dbus-uuidgen --ensure=/etc/machine-id
[earth ~]# install -m755 -g 81 -o 81 -d /run/dbus
[earth ~]# exec dbus-daemon --system --nofork --nopidfile
^C
Artix Linux 6.6.67-1-lts (tty1)
earth login:

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #7 – 24 December 2024, 16:56:25

Then it seems dbus runs OK now, so just try to start the service and check if it keeps running.
If it does then start networkmanager.

artist

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #8 – 24 December 2024, 17:29:40

thank you for your time, it finally works. I don't know what happened, I installed artix just like I do normally except this happened, first on my machine and then on a vm and the same thing happened. Shouldn't this be working out of the box?

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #9 – 24 December 2024, 17:45:24

 It's unclear how the dbus user did not get created or got removed; this is the first time I see this issue.
Maybe if you share all the exact actions you performed for the install, we can say more about any possible cause.

artist

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #10 – 24 December 2024, 18:03:55

I have the same problem with the installation of openrc (but I also tried Dinit): that is, dbus does not start with the same problem and the system is obviously unusable... xorg doesn't start... iwd and not networkmanager but the problem is always dbus....

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #11 – 24 December 2024, 18:45:09

sure, it's the standard stuff, the exact steps I took to install are as following

cfdisk /dev/nvme0n1
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2
mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot/efi
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi
basestrap /mnt base base-devel elogind-runit intel-ucode linux-firmware linux-lts man-db nano networkmanager-runit runit
fstabgen -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
artix-chroot /mnt
ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc
nano /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
nano /etc/locale.conf
nano /etc/hosts
ln -s /etc/runit/sv/NetworkManager /etc/runit/runsvdir/default
passwd
usreadd -m user
passwd user
usrmod -aG audio,floppy,kvm,network,optical,storage,video,wheel user
EDITOR=nano visudo
pacman -S efibootmgr grub os-prober
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
exit
umount -R /mnt
reboot

hope it helps

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #12 – 24 December 2024, 19:08:41

The root cause has been identified; the current version does no longer create the dbus user, which causes this problem on newly installed systems.

A fixed version of the package has been built and is now in system-gremlins.

artist

Re: cannot start networkmanager

Reply #13 – 24 December 2024, 21:21:04

Fixed dbus pkg has been moved to system

artist