*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 295405 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405
It's now 2014! I landed on this page because I saw exact error message
from my Ubuntu 21.04 box. Milan comment
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/consolekit/+bug/475503/comments/20)
was helpful for me. But WAIT! I did not take his advice literally and I
am glad that I did that.
A while a go I was careless enough to run "sudo chown -R myuser:root
/usr". I fixed that mistake by copying ownership and permissions from
another machine, but apparently it did not fix everything. After reading
Milan's comment, I did this:
On the problematic server:
ls -lah /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root root 287K Jun 13 2013
/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
On the intact server:
ls -lah /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root messagebus 287K Jun 13 2013
/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
So a chmod command fixed it:
sudo chmod 4754 /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
So running "sudo find / -gid OLD_GID -exec chgrp NEW_GID '{}' \;" would be
potentially very dangerous and time consuming too. One more WARNING: /usr is
not really for "users". It's still a system directory that Linux does not like
at all if you mess up with ownerships and permissions there.
It's old thread but I want to write and save someone from troubles.
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D-BUS activation fails to start console-kit-daemon with error:
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