After an update of our RedHat server 7.4 (dbus-1.6.12-17.el7.x86_64), there are many services that won't boot because dbus is not activating the service 'org.freedesktop.hostname1'. Here is a trace:

dbus[1342]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service'
dbus-daemon[1342]: dbus[1342]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' unit='dbus-org.freedesk...er.service'
dbus[1342]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
dbus-daemon[1342]: dbus[1342]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
dbus[1342]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher': timed out
dbus-daemon[1342]: dbus[1342]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher': timed out

I googled the problem, nowhere I see this, and the manual is not very explicit on dbus.

Any idea what is the problem? what should I check?
(not using SELinux, so this is not the problem)

Daniel

Hello Ouimet,

The issue looks related to systemd process rebooting the Server and running "yum update" may help..

NOT !!!!! a good idea on a server

in fact a VERY bad idea on a server unless you are just now setting it up a new install and debugging it

this is a redhat server
contact redhat customer/tech support
you BOUGHT THE REQUIRED support contract on " some number" of servers

so use the support contract you bought


also can you post the output of this command
this will help US help YOU

Thanks Hostech for the answers but I already tried rebooting (same problem) and I did all the updates so "yum update" won't change a thing!

John VV: you are very right, I am not rebooting very often because this is a group server (research center), so downtime is a problem. We are not allowed to RedHat support according to our contract, so trying to solve it myself. I think polkit my be an issue here. Here is the trace starting it:
Dec 11 15:58:17 aleph.CRM.UMontreal.CA polkitd[42299]: Started polkitd version 0.112
Dec 11 15:58:17 aleph.CRM.UMontreal.CA polkitd[42299]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d
Dec 11 15:58:17 aleph.CRM.UMontreal.CA polkitd[42299]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d
Dec 11 15:58:17 aleph.CRM.UMontreal.CA polkitd[42299]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 7 rules
Dec 11 15:58:17 aleph.CRM.UMontreal.CA polkitd[42299]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus
Dec 11 15:59:47 aleph.CRM.UMontreal.CA systemd[1]: polkit.service start operation timed out. Terminating.
Dec 11 15:59:47 aleph.CRM.UMontreal.CA systemd[1]: Failed to start Authorization Manager.
Dec 11 15:59:47 aleph.CRM.UMontreal.CA systemd[1]: Unit polkit.service entered failed state.
Dec 11 15:59:47 aleph.CRM.UMontreal.CA systemd[1]: polkit.service failed.



For the repolist, here is the output:

% yum repolist all
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-manager
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rhel-7-server-rhn-tools-beta-source-rpms/x86_64 RHN Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server Beta (Source disabled
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rhel-7-server-rhn-tools-rpms/7Server/x86_64 RHN Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server (RPMs) disabled
rhel-7-server-rhn-tools-source-rpms/7Server/x86_64 RHN Tools for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Server (Source RPMs disabled
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!rpmforge RHEL 7Server - RPMforge.net - dag enabled: 245
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here is one major problem
https://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalRe...ories/RPMForge

it went of line in the summer of 2016
uninstall AL!!!!!! rpms from that repo ASAP

to find them run
and uninstall EVERYTHING from rpmforge

this may be easy
OR
you might have to reinstall ( 30 min to 1 hour ) or spend a week fixing it

then rerun "yum update "

seeing as redhat updates is MISSING running a update will likely NOT WORK

so you have the SELF supporting server install
that license gives you access to the redhat updates
please install the redhat server-updates from the base rhn repo

Didn't know about rpmforge, deleted it. No rpm were installed with this repo. So this is irrelevant to my problem.

Digging more, I realized that the source of my problems are probably polkit. I checked the configuration files, they are the same as 1 year ago, so no change on this side. But polkit is supposed to start the Auth Manager with org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 but it times out. When I look with strace, I see this looping after trying to start it:
poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1) = 1 ([{fd=5, revents=POLLIN}])
read(5, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 8
with sometimes this line appears:
futex(0x560d2fca1d50, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1

It seems to wait for something to start the Auth Manager with org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1

Any idea what is missing?

You are most Welcome Ouimet, we will be more than happy to provide you any technical help in future.

Problem solved!
setroubleshoot user was absent from the /etc/passwd

setroubleshoot-server was complaining it could not be updated because the setroubleshoot group was there but not the user. So I removed the group, reinstall setroubleshoot with an update. After I restart by hand (with systemctl) all other failed deamon beginning with polkit, and voila!

Hope this helps others with the same problem!

Daniel

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