Re: unable to connect to dbus

Gerry Reno wrote:
> Gerry Reno wrote:
>> I'm seeing early termination of yum commands when this error occurs. 
>> For example I went to remove a list of packages and part way through 
>> the removal I see the "unable to connect to dbus" error and the 
>> command terminates right there. It doesn't retry to connect, it just 
>> terminates. So only half of the packages got removed. This caused 
>> problems in later commands because I was expecting those packages to 
>> be erased.
>>
> What I see is ERROR in PREUN scriptlet for the last package and then 
> the "unable to connect to dbus" error.
>
Ok, now 'service messagebus status' shows FAILED.  When I try to start 
it I get the error unable to open 
/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/dbus_contexts.  yum shows the latest dbus 
package as installed.  ???

Regards,
Gerry