Tons of "detected unsafe path transititions" after migrating install to new HD

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Hi. I feel like I’ve probably made an obvious mistake somewhere. I recently moved installs (formatted, partitioned, mounted new drive, nixos-installed to it, copied /home over, rebooted).

But now after I activate a new profile I get this. Any suggestions as to what is causing these… warnings?

reloading user units for cole...
setting up tmpfiles
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/lib.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/lib.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/lock.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/lib.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/systemd.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/systemd.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/systemd.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/systemd.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/systemd.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/systemd.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/systemd.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/systemd/netif.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/systemd/netif.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/systemd/netif.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/lib.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/lib/systemd.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/lib.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/log.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/cache.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/log.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/log.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/log.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/keys.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/b3229d18acc242b9b6aa460fa8f42f19.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/b3229d18acc242b9b6aa460fa8f42f19.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/b3229d18acc242b9b6aa460fa8f42f19.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/log/journal.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /run during canonicalization of /run/log/journal.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/b3229d18acc242b9b6aa460fa8f42f19/system.journal.
Detected unsafe path transition / → /var during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/b3229d18acc242b9b6aa460fa8f42f19/system.journal.
starting the following units: home-manager-cole.service
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I’m not sure if it applies to your particular situation but I’ve seen this before when my / top-level directory was owned by my regular user account instead of root. Just in case you may want to check the ownership on that.

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Yup, that did it. Not sure how that came to be. Thanks @pbogdan.