services don't start - users - Fedora Mailing-Lists

Friday, 31 August 2018

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?  