Frank McCormick wrote:
> While compiling an application today my Debian bullseye system somehow
> got messed up. It will boot to a CLI but no X, apparently because for
> some reason the system is unable to access some files in
> /usr/share/dbus-1. It keeps saying access denied. The directories and
> files are owned by root, and if I noot to a CLI I have no trouble
> accessing them using sudo and midnight commander.
>
> I tried reinstalling systemd but it ended with the same problem.
On my bullseye/sid lappie, for comparison to yours:
kent@westk-9463:~$ ls -lah /usr/share/dbus-1/
total 84K
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Sep 17 19:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 610 root root 20K Sep 5 16:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 6 20:50 accessibility-services
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12K Aug 6 21:03 interfaces
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20K Aug 6 20:55 services
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.6K Jul 2 08:19 session.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 17 19:55 session.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.7K Jul 2 08:19 system.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Sep 17 19:55 system.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Aug 6 21:08 system-services
kent@westk-9463:~$ ls -lahd /usr/share/dbus-1/
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K Sep 17 19:55 /usr/share/dbus-1/