Ah, that revealed something more interesting: 9568 execve("/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper", ["/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper", [...] 9568 <... execve resumed> ) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
So apparently /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper isn't executable for the user "messagebus". That' s a bit weird, since in comment 3 the actual program permissions are correct, and since (I presume) you ran "ls" as normal user the directory permissions should be okay, too. However, please check/give me the output of ls -ld /lib ls -ld /lib/dbus-1.0 They should both be drwxr-xr-x root:root. Also, please try to manually run it as user messagebus: sudo -u messagebus /lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper What's the output? Let's also check integrity of the binary: (cd /; md5sum -c /var/lib/dpkg/info/dbus.md5sums ) Any line which doesn't say "Ok"? Finally, do you get anything interesting in dmesg if you do this? If you aren't sure, and it's just technobabble to you, please attach /var/log/kern.log after those tests. Thanks! -- fails to run lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/295405 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs