D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open “/var/lib/dbus/machine-id”

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1. Pingback: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: “/etc/machine-id” is not a regular file See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue. D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace Abor

2. Aas says:

   May 15, 2013 at 4:57 pm

   Thank you. This has been a quick solution thanks to you.
   Thank you 3rd time 😉
3. eerieN says:

   June 27, 2013 at 8:35 pm

   Thank you!
4. ronald says:

   July 25, 2013 at 8:47 pm

   Sir you are a genius thanks
5. JackOfAllTrades says:

   July 31, 2013 at 3:26 pm

   holy cow. i did not expect this one to be that easy. thanks!
6. Kjell Hedstrom says:

   September 18, 2013 at 8:27 am

   Great. Worked like a charm.

   Thanks for sharing
7. higkoo says:

   October 11, 2013 at 11:11 am

   Thanks , Just do it will be ok !
8. mkhalil says:

   November 4, 2013 at 2:07 am

   When I run

   ” dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id”

   I keep getting

   ” bash: /var/lib/dbus/machine-id: Permission denied”

   Help pleae
9. Graham says:

   November 4, 2013 at 4:46 pm

   Hi ,

   Try, “sudo dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id”

   Cheers,

   Graham.
10. mkhalil says:

    November 4, 2013 at 7:24 pm

    I did try

    “sudo dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id”

    same result

    ” bash: /var/lib/dbus/machine-id: Permission denied”

    Best Regards
11. sander says:

    November 4, 2013 at 8:06 pm

    sudo dbus-uuidgen –ensure
12. Ha says:

    November 15, 2013 at 11:02 am

    Thankks !! you save me !
13. KJ says:

    December 20, 2013 at 4:06 pm

    Thanks for the quick solution!

    @mkhalil: I had the same problem too, I ended up creating the file manually and copying the generated ID into it:

    sudo touch /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
    dbus-uuidgen
    #copy the generated ID
    sudo vim /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
    #paste it in and save
14. Rolle says:

    January 7, 2014 at 5:00 am

    This solved the problem here as well. Needed this to start headless skype + bitlbee. Thanks a lot!
15. Larry says:

    April 6, 2014 at 1:48 am

    Thanks for sharing this! My exact problem and solution.
16. Edward says:

    July 16, 2014 at 12:14 am

    I hunted for quite a while to find this solution. Thank you for such a clear and concise answer.
17. erm3nda says:

    March 17, 2015 at 1:09 pm

    Thank you.
18. Gary says:

    December 7, 2015 at 12:02 am

    Like KJ I had to create the machine-id file myself in the /etc/ folder . I am using FreeBSD 10.2 … but thank you, Firefox works now! 🙂
19. Letang says:

    December 15, 2015 at 2:15 am

    you ROCK G!
20. Ryan Park says:

    February 24, 2016 at 12:08 pm

    Thank you, it was great help
21. Abdel says:

    December 9, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    Thanks a lot this saved me a week of debbuging
22. Areeb says:

    March 24, 2017 at 4:00 pm

    Thanks Graham this did the trick. I don’t know why the package wouldn’t generate an ID by default.
23. James says:

    June 1, 2017 at 2:06 am

    for me this happened running spyder in Windows Subsystem for Linux. The location expected was actually /etc/machine-id and the command above got permission denied even with sudo, so I just called dbus-uuidgen by itself, copied the id, then did sudo nano /etc/machine-id and pasted the id, and saved/exited. Then spyder worked (of course I already installed xming)
24. Sam says:

    March 27, 2018 at 2:54 pm

    This fixed a bug in Firefox for me on FreeBSD! Thank you!
25. Cody says:

    December 13, 2018 at 12:45 am

    Fantastic. This worked for me as well thanks so much.
    Running on Docker CentOS7.