I broke it, failed to start network manager service

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I have found an old fix:sudo restorecon -vr /run/NetworkManager, sudo systemctl start NetworkManager. But loose it after reboot! I have my home dir backed up, Downloaded ISO. Maybe someone has a smarter way

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An old fix for what? I am not sure I understand your issue, which makes it difficult to suggest another way (let alone a smarter one).

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/run is a directory mapped onto temporary storage, so /run/NetworkManager does not exist on reboot. On my system, I can delete it, and after “systemctl restart NetworkManager”, it’s created by NetworkManager itself with the proper SELinux label.

Are the system logs showing any problem with normal NetworkManager startup? Does “systemctl status NetworkManager” show “service enabled” and preset “enabled”?

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Thanks for the reply’s! Forgot to post the log error: Failed to start networkmanager.service - network manager. Tried this morning to reinstall networkmanager, no-go already installed. Just not started.

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Running

systemctl status NetworkManager.service

should provide more information.

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Thanks for the help! Got it workin now! Removed netplan. Working as it should. I was working on a linux server that I have to ssh to access. Without paying attention I went to terminal but did ssh to the server. Caused desktop troubles