Muon Issues

[Oderus]

I actually had some permission issues with the /usr folder and had to have root take ownership of that directory to get my system to work again... I suspect some of those files were supposed to be owned by the user.. just thinking of this now sorry.

[GreyGeek]

Snowhog is refering, of course, to this permission error you posted: org.kubuntu.qaptworker3: Permission denied"

The following files are related:
~$ locate qaptworker3
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.kubuntu.qaptworker3.conf
/usr/bin/qaptworker3
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.kubuntu.qaptworker3.service
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kubuntu.qaptworker3.policy

:~$ vdir /usr/bin/qaptworker3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 188760 Jun 30 2016 /usr/bin/qaptworker3

jerry@jerry-Aspire-V3-771:~$ cat /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.kubuntu.qaptworker3.conf
<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
"-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>

<!-- Only user root can own the QAptWorker service -->
<policy user="root">
<allow own="org.kubuntu.qaptworker3"/>
</policy>

<policy context="default">
<allow send_destination="org.kubuntu.qaptworker3"/>
</policy>

</busconfig>


So, try running muon from a konsole using this:
dbus-run-session muon

[Oderus]

Okay I have tried this, and here's the output

tweak@AmigaBuntu:~$ dbus-run-session muon
Invalid pixmap specified.
No frame loaded
No frame loaded
No frame loaded
No frame loaded
No frame loaded
No frame loaded
No frame loaded
No frame loaded
No frame loaded
Found a release
klauncher not running... launching kdeinit
kdeinit5: Shutting down running client.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch 'libkdeinit5_klauncher'
kdeinit5: Launched KLauncher, pid = 16830, result = 0
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QStr ing,QString,QString)
kdeinit5: opened connection to :0
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so'
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/http.so' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/http.so'
Activating service name='org.kde.kded5'
Successfully activated service 'org.kde.kded5'
Activating service name='org.kde.kglobalaccel'
Successfully activated service 'org.kde.kglobalaccel'
detected kglobalaccel restarting, re-registering all shortcut keys
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kconf_update' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kconf_update'
kdeinit5: PID 16854 terminated.
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Telepathy.AccountManager'
QDBusConnection: error: could not send message to service "org.kubuntu.qaptworker3" path "Failed to execute program org.kubuntu.qaptworker3: Permission denied" interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" member "GetAll": Invalid object path: Failed to execute program org.kubuntu.qaptworker3: Permission denied
found error while replying QDBusError("org.qtproject.QtDBus.Error.InvalidObje ctPath", "Invalid object path: Failed to execute program org.kubuntu.qaptworker3: Permission denied")
found error while replying QDBusError("org.qtproject.QtDBus.Error.InvalidObje ctPath", "Invalid object path: Failed to execute program org.kubuntu.qaptworker3: Permission denied")
found error while replying QDBusError("org.qtproject.QtDBus.Error.InvalidObje ctPath", "Invalid object path: Failed to execute program org.kubuntu.qaptworker3: Permission denied")
found error while replying QDBusError("org.qtproject.QtDBus.Error.InvalidObje ctPath", "Invalid object path: Failed to execute program org.kubuntu.qaptworker3: Permission denied")
Activating service name='org.kde.KScreen'
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/http.so' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/http.so'
Successfully activated service 'org.kde.KScreen'
Activating service name='org.gtk.vfs.Daemon'
Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.Daemon'
Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Telepathy.AccountManager'
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.KTp.Approve r'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.KTp.Approver' failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.KTp.Approver: No such file or directory
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.KTp.KdedInt egrationModule'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.KTp.KdedIntegrat ionModule' failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.KTp.KdedIntegrati onModule: No such file or directory
kdeinit5: PID 16832 terminated.

The action i tried to do was purging some leftover files.

[vinnywright]

I actually had some permission issues with the /usr folder and had to have root take ownership of that directory to get my system to work again... I suspect some of those files were supposed to be owned by the user.. just thinking of this now sorry.

IF you used the same chown command "sudo chown -R tweak:tweak /home/tweak/" but like this "sudo chown -R root:root /usr" ,,,,,,,,then you will have problems/quirks to come yet ,,,,,some of the hundreds of files/programs under /usr need to be in their own group and not root's that chown command changed every thing in/under /usr to owner=root group=root ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,IF thats what you did ?

VINNY

[Oderus]

it is, sadly... sounds like i may have to just reinstall..

[vinnywright]

it is, sadly... sounds like i may have to just reinstall..

sadly ,,,,I would agree ,,,,,but do wait a day to see if anyone has an Idea for recovery ,,,,,I doubt it .

VINNY

[Oderus]

ok sounds good. Lesson learned the hard way is still a lesson...

Edit: Think I will wait until April 13th to install 17.04 if I need to reinstall.

[Snowhog]

It would not be a bad idea to reinstall with the current release you are using now; just don't format the /home partition.

[Oderus]

It would not be a bad idea to reinstall with the current release you are using now; just don't format the /home partition.

i do not have a seperate partition for my home folder... although i can back it up.

[Snowhog]

I'd do that. Having a separate /home makes reinstalling, when 'something' such as what you have on your hands occurs, simpler, as you install the OS and don't elect to format the existing /home partition.

[GreyGeek]

it is, sadly... sounds like i may have to just reinstall..

+1

And, after you use a package manager to remove OR purge a file you can use sudo apt autoremove in Konsole to remove orphaned files.