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

[Cecil Westerhof]

Op wo 17 okt. 2018 om 20:06 schreef Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof at gmail.com
>:

> 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.
>
> I tried 'everything', even rebooting the system.
> What could be the problem.
> This is with:
>     systemd 239
>     +PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP
> +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS
> +KMOD -IDN2 +IDN -PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid
>
> On:
>     Distributor ID: Debian
>     Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 (stretch)
>     Release:        9.5
>     Codename:       stretch
>

I found out that in reality no reboot had taken place. For one reason or
another that did not work. Doing:
    systemctl reboot
    systemctl poweroff
    init 0
    halt

All did not work. Those gave messages like:
    Transport endpoint is not connected

I did a hard reset and that seems to have solved my problem.

My problems started after an update of VirtualBox (and one other package).
Why I do not know.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
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