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Hello,

Can anyone shed some light on this error?

The symptoms are as follows:

Shutdown my Tosh Satellite Pro on F16 with Linux 3.2.3-2.fc16.i686
Rebooted and X will not start. It pushes me to root prompt for Emergency mode.
From there I can change user and startx
But the performance and environment is not exactly as I would expect.
No services appear to run, no network. etc etc
Some GUI applications wont start.

Sometime I can get network to start.
When I do yum operations, I can see this error all the time:
"Unable to connect to dbus"

When I do a status I can see the following:

Code:



#service dbus status

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl  status dbus.service

dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus

          Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static)

          Active: failed since Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:13:11 +0000; 31min ago

        Main PID: 11060 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/dbus.service

When I try restart I see the following
/bin/dbus-daemon has failed.

Code:



# service dbus restart

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl  restart dbus.service

# service dbus status

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl  status dbus.service

dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus

          Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static)

          Active: failed since Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:45:44 +0000; 4s ago

        Process: 13932 ExecStart=/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --systemd-activation (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

        Process: 13930 ExecStartPre=/bin/rm -f /var/run/messagebus.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

        Process: 13927 ExecStartPre=/bin/dbus-uuidgen --ensure (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/dbus.service

How can I get this restarted as it appears to be causing all sorts of inter process communication issues?

appreciate any help/suggestions.

thanks.