Reload failed for D-Bus System Message Bus during nixos-upgrade

Hello,

one of my hosts does not autoUpgrade correctly since it was migrated to nixos 24.11. There is a Reload failed for D-Bus System Message Bus and then nixos-upgrade fails.

So far I have not been able to reproduce that problem. A manual nixos-rebuilt switch works without problems.

Ideas for solving the problem are welcome.

Dez 21 02:31:30 nixos nixos-upgrade-start[63959]: reloading the following units: dbus.service
Dez 21 02:31:30 nixos systemd[1]: Reloading D-Bus System Message Bus...
Dez 21 02:31:55 nixos dbus-send[64164]: Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy >
Dez 21 02:31:55 nixos systemd[1]: dbus.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dez 21 02:32:20 nixos dbus-daemon[853]: Unknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file
Dez 21 02:32:20 nixos dbus-daemon[853]: Unknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file
Dez 21 02:32:20 nixos dbus-daemon[853]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Dez 21 02:32:20 nixos cups-browsed[1335]: WARNING: Unhandled message: interface=org.freedesktop.DBus, path=/org/freedesktop/DBus, member=ActivatableServicesChanged
Dez 21 02:32:20 nixos systemd[1]: Reload failed for D-Bus System Message Bus.
Dez 21 02:32:20 nixos dbus-daemon[853]: Unknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file
Dez 21 02:32:20 nixos dbus-daemon[853]: Unknown group "netdev" in message bus configuration file
Dez 21 02:32:20 nixos dbus-daemon[853]: [system] Reloaded configuration
Dez 21 02:32:20 nixos cups-browsed[1335]: WARNING: Unhandled message: interface=org.freedesktop.DBus, path=/org/freedesktop/DBus, member=ActivatableServicesChanged
Dez 21 02:32:20 nixos nixos-upgrade-start[63959]: restarting the following units: polkit.service
Dez 21 02:32:22 nixos nixos[63959]: switching to system configuration /nix/store/9g2zs64bxf4bdgnccrllmjxqa4qxb1mj-nixos-system-nixos-24.11.20241219.c59b3cb failed (status 4)
Dez 21 02:32:22 nixos systemd[1]: nixos-rebuild-switch-to-configuration.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=4/NOPERMISSION
Dez 21 02:32:22 nixos systemd[1]: nixos-rebuild-switch-to-configuration.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dez 21 02:32:22 nixos nixos-upgrade-start[63925]: warning: error(s) occurred while switching to the new configuration
Dez 21 02:32:22 nixos systemd[1]: nixos-upgrade.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dez 21 02:32:22 nixos systemd[1]: nixos-upgrade.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dez 21 02:32:22 nixos systemd[1]: Failed to start NixOS Upgrade.

Have you restarted the system since the problem occurred?

Yes, the system has been restarted. Unfortunately this doesn’t solve the problem. It looks like it will happen again when new packages are available.