On 31.08.2018 19:08, Mike Zingale wrote: > One of our Fedora 28 machines now longer boots. Services fail to start, and there are a lot of errors like: > > [ 3881.765993] systemd[2018]: dbus.service: Failed to execute command: Permission denied > [ 3881.766884] systemd[2018]: dbus.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/dbus-daemon: Permission denied > > for each service. gdm or a prompt on other terminals on the machine never come up, but I can ssh into the machine. > > dnf doesn't work (it gives Error: Failed to synchronize cache for repo 'updates' ) > > any other system commands take forever (just doing `su` or querying systemctl takes a few minutes, and then usually fails). > > Any thoughts on what might be causing this? One idea is, that someone has set the permission of your files wrong. some points to check this: rpm -V dbus ls -lZ /usr/bin/dbus-daemon ls -ldZ /usr/bin ls -ldZ /usr ls -ldZ / best regards Ulf _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx