[systemd-devel] Unable to remove images using machinectl

[Erik Johnson]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 11:01:44PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>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
>
>-- 
>Lennart Poettering, Red Hat


OK. After rebooting, it's still not working. Were the necessary changes
limited to that one commit?

I'm demoing nspawn at SaltConf tomorrow
(http://eventmobi.com/saltconf15/agenda/94463/505550), and if necessary
I can just run machined in the foreground. Continuing to troubleshoot
this isn't really that necessary.

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