[arch-general] systemd --user enable: Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

[Damjan Georgievski]

On 27 June 2018 at 08:26, Bjoern Franke <bjo at nord-west.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to create a systemd timer for a user to run duply daily. For
> one user the enabled worked fine, but another one:
>
> systemctl --user enable backup.timer
> Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
>
> I have no clue why this happens, systemctl daemon-reload (also with
> --user) did not fix it. I found a similar issue in the forums, but the
> solution was to "ln -s" the timer and than rebooting. But I don't think
> this would be the "correct" solution because "systemctl --user enable"
> should also work.

What distro are you running? And what are the versions of systemd and dbus?

You also should have (so confirm that)

/usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus.socket and
/usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus.service files and a
/usr/lib/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/dbus.socket symlink too


-- 
damjan