Re: can't boot to a graphical interface.
On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 13:39:22 -0400
Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
> On 10/3/20 11:20 AM, Kent West wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 8:01 AM songbird <songbird@anthive.com
> > <mailto:songbird@anthive.com>> wrote:
> >
> > 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/
> >
>
>
> My system now is back to **normal**. I re-installed
> about a dozen packages including systemd.
> I also changed one mode to match yours.
>
> frank@franklin:~$ ls -lah /usr/share/dbus-1/
> total 44K
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Oct 3 10:08 .
> drwxr-xr-x 246 root root 12K Oct 2 16:56 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 3 10:08 interfaces
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 3 09:20 services
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3.6K Jul 2 09:19 session.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.7K Jul 2 09:19 system.conf
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 3 10:08 system.d
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Oct 3 10:08 system-services
>
> Still don't know what the h*ll happened.
You are using "testing" and an Alpha 2 Release after all. So, expect
the occassional "gotcha." It's the nature of the beast.
B
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