Re: Strange message on boot

[Robert McBroom via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/11/24 10:30, Jonathan Billings wrote:

> On Feb 10, 2024, at 19:05, Robert McBroom via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I typically boot in mode 3 to a terminal. Fedora f39 going to lxde as the desktop. Today with a cold boot and entering  the user login the following message showed
> >
> > --
> >
> > System is going down. Unprivileged users are not permitted to log in anymore , for technical details see pam_nologin(8)
> >
> > --
> >
> > Further messages indicated that some updates were being installed. After some minutes the system rebooted.
> >
> > Everything known has been done to prevent any automatic updates with manual dnf being used as needed. The pam_login module looks for the existence of
> >
> > /etc/nologin or
> >
> > /var/run/nolongin
> >
> > What is updating files without a command  and writing these entries?
> >       
> You mentioned you disabled DNF auto updates, but is the packagekit-offline-updates.service unit running?  That can also perform updates (via PackageKit->dnf) and reboot.  Perhaps the login shell was somehow added to the system-update.target?
>
> It’s worth looking at the journal at that time to see what was running.  This isn’t a completely unsolvable mystery, all the actions will be in the journal.
>     
    ]# systemctl
        status packagekit
      
      ○ packagekit.service - PackageKit Daemon
      
          Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/packagekit.service;
      static)
      
         Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
      
                  └─10-timeout-abort.conf
      
          Active: inactive (dead)
      
    ~]# systemctl
        status system-update.target
      
      ○ system-update.target - Offline System Update
      
          Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/system-update.target;
      static)
      
          Active: inactive (dead)
      
      
      
    
  

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