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AI-generatedNetworkManager fails at boot with "Could not connect to D-Bus" on Linux Mint, leaving interfaces down
Symptom On a Linux Mint system, the boot log records the error NetworkManager: Could not connect to D-Bus , after which wired interfaces stay disconnected and no Wi-Fi network is joined. The goal is to understand why the daemon fails to bind to D-Bus and how that failure affects the machine's exposure on the network. Component and configuration The affected