[SOLVED] defect dbus service, systemd is unable to create socket

Question

Hi,
I am experiencing serious problems with systemd & dbus.
I want to setup a gateway in a KVM VM, all was working fine till i applied my shorewall config & set to autostart (systemctl enable shorewall).
If I reboot the machine after this step one or two times, then I get a broken dbus service.
What I did than: reinstalled archlinux again (x86_x64) and setup same -> got issue again.
installed arch linux as x86 and setup same -> issue again
installed arch as x86 and configured nothing else shorewall and got this issue again after maximum of two reboots.
i found in log:
Feb 13 15:45:56 pactor systemd[1]: Failed to open private bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
I've checked this directory by hand and found that only /var/run is existing. /var/run/dbus is already not existing.
logs:
journalctl -b: http://nopaste.info/685f4c6192.html
-be aware of systemd-logind, this needs dbus and i experience same problem with other services which require dbus as dnsmasq
root@pactor ~]# systemctl status dbus
dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static)
Active: active (running) since Mi 2013-02-13 15:45:56 CET; 9min ago
Main PID: 169 (dbus-daemon)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/dbus.service
└─169 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation
[root@pactor ~]# systemctl status dbus.socket
dbus.socket - D-Bus System Message Bus Socket
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.socket; static)
Active: active (running) since Mi 2013-02-13 15:45:56 CET; 9min ago
Feb 13 15:45:56 pactor systemd[1]: Listening on D-Bus System Message Bus Socket.
systemd-logind.service - Login Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-logind.service; static)
Active: activating (start) since Mi 2013-02-13 16:00:56 CET; 48s ago
Docs: man:systemd-logind.service(8)
man:logind.conf(5)
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat
Main PID: 338 (systemd-logind)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/systemd-logind.service
└─338 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
Feb 13 16:00:56 pactor systemd[1]: Failed to start Login Service.
Feb 13 16:00:56 pactor systemd[1]: Unit systemd-logind.service entered failed state
Feb 13 16:00:56 pactor systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Feb 13 16:00:56 pactor systemd[1]: Stopping Login Service...
Feb 13 16:00:56 pactor systemd[1]: Starting Login Service...
installed packages: http://nopaste.info/1d1be9adad.html
shorewall config: shorewall_conf.tar
Last edited by debijan (2013-02-20 20:13:47)

Answer 1

oh man... found the reason due to help of some guys on systemd irc... big thx to falconindy and alxchk.
shorewall's SUBSYSLOCK option in shorewall.conf is by default set to /var/lock/shorewall.
but the arch wiki point that it should be set to /var/run: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Router
definitely wrong! that deletes the /var/run symlink and created a directory intstead.
to set the SUBSYSLOCK on default is working like a charm.
look also for this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151285
could somebody modify the wiki in the meantime, i will hold this thread on -not-solved in the meantime
edit:/ oh man this wrong info in wiki did cost me a lot of time :-/
Last edited by debijan (2013-02-13 22:09:35)