Systemctl problem on Rawhide

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Mon Jun 1 11:17:25 UTC 2015


On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 13:02:57 +0200
Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 11:52:13 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> 
> > For a while now, I can't pin down the exact date the problem
> > started :-(, I have been unable to use systemctl – which is rather
> > problematic.
> > 
> > # systemctl
> > Failed to list units: Access denied
> > # whoami
> > root
> > #
> > 
> > Using Google I discovered Debian had a similar issue with
> > systemd-shim with the systemd 215 upgrade, however I suspect this
> > doesn't apply to Fedora Rawhide. I had been hoping this was a
> > widespread problem and would be fixed by an update, but clearly
> > this is not a widespread problem.
> > 
> > Anyone any idea how I can "debug" this problem?
> 
> Well, a few typical first steps would be to test with SELinux
> enforcing=0, to check "rpm -V systemd", to "strace systemctl" and see
> which files/dirs it tries to open.

This is indeed selinux related... seems to be systemd-220 has some bug
around selinux handling:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224211

kevin
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