HPLIP no longer loading Unable to connect to dbus system bus

hplip on a fedora distrobox is no longer working. tried creating a new distro box and it still fails with
hp-toolbox ─╯

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.24.4)
HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

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HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.24.4)
System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

error: Unable to connect to dbus system bus. Exiting.
warning: Unable to connect to dbus. Is hp-systray running?
error: dBus initialization error. Exiting.
hp-toolbox ─╯

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.24.4)
HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

-
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.24.4)
System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

error: Unable to connect to dbus system bus. Exiting.
warning: Unable to connect to dbus. Is hp-systray running?
error: dBus initialization error. Exiting.
running hp-systray gives a simillar error
hp-systray

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.24.4)
System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

error: Unable to connect to dbus system bus. Exiting.
hp-systray

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.24.4)
System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

error: Unable to connect to dbus system bus. Exiting.
Solution:
yup needed to create a distrobox with the init system option in boxbuddy
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zany130
zany130OP4mo ago
hmm simillar error on a arch distrobox
hp-systray ─╯

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.24.4)
System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

error: Unable to connect to dbus system bus. Exiting.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.24.4)
HPLIP upgrade latest version ver. 1.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

warning: HPLIP upgrade is disabled by Archlinux for security reasons, see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/38083 - if you like to upgrade HPLIP, use the Archlinux software package manager pacman.
hp-systray ─╯

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.24.4)
System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

error: Unable to connect to dbus system bus. Exiting.

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.24.4)
HPLIP upgrade latest version ver. 1.0

Copyright (c) 2001-18 HP Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

warning: HPLIP upgrade is disabled by Archlinux for security reasons, see https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/38083 - if you like to upgrade HPLIP, use the Archlinux software package manager pacman.
strange this is this was working the other day https://hastebin.skyra.pw/upemigayix.sql looks like I missing some dependencies
Missing Required Dependencies
-----------------------------
error: 'libjpeg-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'cups-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'cups-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libusb1-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'sane-backends-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'avahi-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'net-snmp-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'openssl-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'python3-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libtool' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'rpm-build' package is missing/incompatible
Missing Required Dependencies
-----------------------------
error: 'libjpeg-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'cups-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'cups-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libusb1-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'sane-backends-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'avahi-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'net-snmp-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'openssl-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'python3-devel' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'libtool' package is missing/incompatible
error: 'rpm-build' package is missing/incompatible
but I installed this in a new fedora box so is the fedora packaging broken? also get the same thing on arch well installed all those packages and still getting the dbus error this maybe why
systemctl status cups.service
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to connect to bus: Host is down
systemctl status cups.service
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to connect to bus: Host is down
Solution
zany130
zany1304mo ago
yup needed to create a distrobox with the init system option in boxbuddy
zany130
zany130OP4mo ago
no idea why it was working before and stoped working though
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