Re: unable to connect to dbus

Gerry Reno wrote:
> 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. ???
>
>
So, looking at this workstation, selinux is not installed. So does dbus 
require selinux? That would be bad.

Regards,
Gerry