<div dir="ltr">A bit more digging, and I also found<br><br>    dbus[1845]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.ColorManager': timed out<br><br>messages in my journalctl tail.<br><br>There were two problems ...<br><br>(1) first doing<br><br>an uninstall of distro pkgs, these manually built packages, then a manual search-n-destroy for all remnant colord/ColorManager files,<br><br>THEN,<br><br>a systemctl daemon-reload<br><br>a reinstall of the manual build<br><br>another systemctl daemon-reload<br><br>(2) config file paths are not found by dbus in /usr/local<br><br>Given these installed files<br><br>    locate ColorManager | egrep "/usr/local"<br>        /usr/local/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.ColorManager.conf<br>        /usr/local/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Device.xml<br>        /usr/local/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Profile.xml<br>        /usr/local/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.ColorManager.Sensor.xml<br>        /usr/local/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.ColorManager.xml<br>        /usr/local/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.ColorManager.service<br><br>Although<br><br>    /usr/local/share/dbus-1/system-services/<br><br>*is*, apparently, a systemd-searched path for services, the config dir,<br><br>    /usr/local/etc/dbus-1/system.d/<br><br>is not dbus-1 valid.  Only the system dir<br><br>    /etc/dbus-1/system.d<br><br>is.<br><br>creating a symlink<br><br>    ln -sf \<br>     /usr/local/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.ColorManager.conf \<br>     /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.ColorManager.conf<br><br>does the trick.<br><br>As would, effectively, changing/assigning the colord /etc dir location at build time to == /etc.<br><br>There _may_ be a system/systemd config file for dbus search paths where that /usr/local path could be added ... I haven't found it yet.</div>