[systemd-devel] Unable to remove images using machinectl

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 02.03.15 14:10, Erik Johnson (erik at saltstack.com) wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 07:51:35PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >On Mon, 02.03.15 11:06, Erik Johnson (erik at saltstack.com) wrote:
> >
> >>I'm getting a similar error to the one described in the following post
> >>from a couple weeks ago:
> >>
> >>https://www.mail-archive.com/systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org/msg28255.html
> >>
> >>I get an "access denied" error when running machinectl remove, even as
> >>root.
> >
> >This was a bug in the dbus policy. It should be fixed with this commit:
> >
> >http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/src/machine/org.freedesktop.machine1.conf?id=72c3897f77a7352618ea76b880a6764f52d6327b
> >
> >Lennart
> >
> >-- 
> >Lennart Poettering, Red Hat
> 
> 
> Thanks. I applied the patch, restarted dbus, and now I get the
> following after a 20-30 second pause:
> 
> Could not remove image: Activation of org.freedesktop.machine1 timed out

dbus is not a service that cannot be restarted during normal
operation. This is a well-known limitation of dbus. Reloading
configuration should be sufficient.

You probably need to reboot now to get back to a working system...

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat