Re: unable to connect to dbus

Tim Lauridsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 05/22/2009 03:35 AM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> 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
>
>
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the error could be in the refresh-packagekit there send some dbus 
command to packagekit to start reload packages lists, when yum completes 
the transaction.

You can try
yum --disableplugin=refresh-packagekit <some command) to see if the 
error goes away.

Tim
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