[systemd-devel] Strange problem: Failed to get properties: Failed to activate service

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mi, 17.10.18 20:06, Cecil Westerhof (cldwesterhof at gmail.com) wrote:

> Since this morning I have a strange problem, when I execute:
>     systemctl status cups
> 
> I get:
>     Failed to get properties: Failed to activate service
> 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
> 
> This is with every service, not just cups.

This suggests systemd for some reason is not on the bus. That's almost
certainly a bug. No idea how that can happen, there might be something
in the logs explaining why it disconnected from the bus.

Usually "systemctl daemon-reexec" should make systemd reconnect to the bus.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat