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marco44, this might be your fix:

sudo systemctl start netbird
sudo systemctl enable netbird
# or simply just
sudo systemctl enable --now netbird

If someone is getting context deadline exceeded error then do a proper uninstallation of netbird first following this comment: https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/1048#issuecomment-2440058691

sudo systemctl stop netbird
sudo systemctl disable netbird

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/netbird
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/netbird-ui
sudo rm /usr/bin/netbird
sudo rm /usr/bin/netbird-ui
sudo rm -rf /etc/netbird
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/netbird

sudo pacman -R netbird
sudo pacman -R netbird-bin-debug

and then install netbird fresh, it should work

Probably best to discuss this in their bugtracker. I don't really test or use -ui, it's there to be consumed by https://chaotic.cx.

Is the issue really fixed on netbird-ui ? I still get 2026-07-01T09:04:47.371+02:00 INFO ./caller_not_available:0: 2026/07/01 09:04:47 WARNING: [core] [Channel #1 SubChannel #2] grpc: addrConn.createTransport failed to connect to {Addr: "/var/run/netbird.sock", ServerName: "localhost", Attributes: {"<%!p(networktype.keyType=grpc.internal.transport.networktype)>": "unix" }, }. Err: connection error: desc = "transport: Error while dialing: dial unix /var/run/netbird.sock: connect: no such file or directory"

I straced netbird-ui, it never tries anything else, just /var/run/netbird.sock. It never tries to see if there's a /var/run/netbird/ directory, nor doing a readdir on it

Both are pulled in by base-devel, which is implicitly assumed to be present on any system used to build packages:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#makedepends

The package base-devel is assumed to be already installed when building with makepkg. Dependencies of this package should not be included in makedepends array.

If in doubt, try building in a chroot, or refer to chaotic-AUR which (afaik) does just that:

https://gitlab.com/chaotic-aur/pkgbuilds/-/tree/main/netbird

I think there are 2 other unlisted requirements for this package: a C compiler and pkg-config.

If you try to makepkg without a C compiler, you will get:

-linkmode=external requires external (cgo) linking, but cgo is not enabled

Installing gcc seems to fix it.

Then, you will get

github.com/go-gl/gl/v2.1/gl: exec: "pkg-config": executable file not found in $PATH

which is resolved by installing pkg-config

.. to upstream systemd units instead of those that came with the package previously.

The package itself is still in the AUR. There was some interest in adopting it into extra a couple of years ago, but nothing came of it.

If/when it gets merged into official repositories, this AUR package will quickly disappear.

@tarball You said the package has been moved to upstream but pacman -Ss is not returning a result and the arch wiki netbird page is pointing to this aur for the install.

It seams the temp. Go 1.26 patch is not needed anymore.

Great, thank you. There's nothing really for me to do since this package has been moved to upstream configs months ago. I'll pin your comment for visibility.

Hi @tarball, I'm from the NetBird team.

This socket path mismatch has been fixed upstream. The CLI, UI, and SSH client now auto-discover the daemon socket when the default /var/run/netbird.sock doesn't exist - they scan /var/run/netbird/*.sock and use it if exactly one is found. So netbird@main.service will work out of the box without needing --daemon-addr or NB_DAEMON_ADDR.

The fix is in https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/commit/ef82905526a5944e9aac96e04b8b7ee67d27c9b9. It's included as of v0.66.