Whilst the original report was with respect to /var/www/ (so presumably www-data?), I'm also seeing this for my perfectly normal user when logging in to desktop in bookworm:
2023-03-25T11:59:48.609091+00:00 emilia wireplumber[3944]: failed to create directory /home/users/athan/.local/state/wireplumber: Permission denied 2023-03-25T11:59:48.632280+00:00 emilia wireplumber[3944]: failed to create directory /home/users/athan/.local/state/wireplumber: Permission denied 2023-03-25T11:59:48.635004+00:00 emilia wireplumber[3944]: failed to create directory /home/users/athan/.local/state/wireplumber: Permission denied 2023-03-25T11:59:48.636281+00:00 emilia wireplumber[3944]: failed to create directory /home/users/athan/.local/state/wireplumber: Permission denied 2023-03-25T11:59:48.692700+00:00 emilia wireplumber[3944]: failed to create directory /home/users/athan/.local/state/wireplumber: Permission denied Permissions are: 08:48:48 0$ ls -ld ~ ~/.local ~/.local/state ~/.local/state/wireplumber drwx--xr-x 260 athan athan 28672 Mar 26 08:40 /home/users/athan/ drwx------ 7 athan athan 4096 Feb 24 12:26 /home/users/athan/.local/ drwx------ 3 athan athan 4096 Feb 24 12:26 /home/users/athan/.local/state/ drwx------ 2 athan athan 4096 Mar 26 08:39 /home/users/athan/.local/state/wireplumber/ Presumably the code in question is trying to perform these operations as some other userid ? As per the OP this then seems to cause a cascade of subsequent errors: 2023-03-25T11:59:48.701237+00:00 emilia wireplumber[3944]: Failed to load cookie file from cookie: No such file or directory 2023-03-25T11:59:48.703341+00:00 emilia pipewire[3942]: Failed to load cookie file from cookie: No such file or directory 2023-03-25T11:59:48.861468+00:00 emilia wireplumber[3944]: Failed to load cookie file from cookie: No such file or directory 2023-03-25T11:59:49.668002+00:00 emilia wireplumber[3944]: Failed to load cookie file from cookie: No such file or directory 2023-03-25T11:59:49.884781+00:00 emilia wireplumber[3944]: Failed to load cookie file from cookie: No such file or directory -- - Athanasius (he/him) = Athanasius(at)miggy.org / https://miggy.org/ GPG/PGP Key: https://miggy.org/gpg-key "And it's me who is my enemy. Me who beats me up. Me who makes the monsters. Me who strips my confidence." Paula Cole - ME