Boot issues - Failed services in run level 5

Catchy · March 21, 2010, 3:48pm

Howdy all,

Earlier this evening I suddenly had hundreds of “Bug Buddy” windows start popping up, which seemed to be stuck in an infinite loop. I rebooted to find myself stuck in run-level 3, due to multiple daemons unable to boot.

I cant copy & paste the logs as I have no way to transfer them over to this PC. The errors displayed were:


Warning: Couldn't connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

Failed services in runlevel 5: earlyxdm xdm avahi-daemon network-remotefs

Of course when ever I run ‘startx’ neither my mouse or keyboard works.

Anyone have any ideas?

Oh, and I’ve finally joined the forums, pitty It’s because of errors.

Edward_Iii · March 21, 2010, 4:12pm

Hello Catchy,

First of all welcome to the community!

It would be helpful if you could post your version of openSUSE.
And maybe you can try to boot in failsafe mode.

Did you install,update or uninstall something before this happend?

Best of luck!

Catchy · March 21, 2010, 4:25pm

I’m running openSUSE 11.2. Yeah, I’ve booted into failsafe mode, no difference.

Did you install,update or uninstall something before this happend?

Wine, uTorrent and ktorrent probably about 2 hours before hand.

knurpht · March 21, 2010, 4:41pm

Can you post output of:


su -c 'cat /var/log/kdm.log'

Welcome to the forums. We’re not just here for trouble…

Edward_Iii · March 21, 2010, 4:42pm

Hello Catchy,

I’m not sure what the problem is.
Maybe there are more errors when booting.

It would be helpful if we could see the content of the files /var/log/boot.log and /var/log/messages.

I cant copy & paste the logs as I have no way to transfer them over to this PC. The errors displayed were:
This makes it very hard to copy. But maybe you have a live CD/DVD.
If you have one boot from it and copy the files on a USB-stick (or something else).
And post them here.

Best of luck!

Catchy · March 21, 2010, 5:14pm

I would if I had that log

I’ve got this boot log:


<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.683711000> service kbd done<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.683874000> service xdm start<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.688331000> service alsasound start<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.697481000> service avahi-daemon start<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.703966000> service bluez-coldplug start<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.744095000> service xdm doneStarting service gdm
The failsafe X.Org configuration /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install no longer exists.
Either move it back (if still available) or copy /etc/X11/xorg.conf to
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.install to use the native graphics driver instead of the
failsafe graphics driver. Of course the latter option no longer can be called
failsafe.
unused
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.744315000> service brld start<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.786797000> service alsasound done<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.788405000> service avahi-daemon doneStarting Avahi daemon failed
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.789775000> service bluez-coldplug donedone
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.802589000> service brld doneStarting brld
done
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.802778000> service cups startStarting cupsd
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.820908000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/cupsd)  /usr/sbin/cupsd ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console SELINUX_INIT=YES ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext4 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 powersaved=off LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.86 apm=off DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=124 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin vga=0x317 DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/openSUSE/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg DO_QUIET=no edd=off PREVLEVEL=N LINES=44 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-00YGA0_WD-WCASE0003942-part3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cupsd ]
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.870501000> service cups donedone
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.870701000> service network-remotefs startStarting the NetworkManager
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.926677000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/NetworkManager)  /usr/sbin/NetworkManager ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no SELINUX_INIT=YES CONSOLE=/dev/console ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext4 TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh ROOTFS_FSCK=0 powersaved=off OLDPWD=/etc/sysconfig/network LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.86 apm=off DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=124 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc/sysconfig/network/scripts DO_CONFIRM=no vga=0x317 RUNLEVEL=5 SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/openSUSE/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg PWD=/etc/sysconfig/network DO_QUIET=no edd=off PREVLEVEL=N LINES=44 SHLVL=2 HOME=/ DO_FORCEFSCK=no SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-00YGA0_WD-WCASE0003942-part3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/NetworkManager ]
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.938528000> service network-remotefs donefailed
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.938636000> service nscd start<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.954117000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/nscd)  /usr/sbin/nscd ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console SELINUX_INIT=YES ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext4 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 powersaved=off LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.86 apm=off DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=124 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin vga=0x317 DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/openSUSE/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg DO_QUIET=no edd=off PREVLEVEL=N LINES=44 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-00YGA0_WD-WCASE0003942-part3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/nscd ]
Starting Name Service Cache Daemon
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.958365000> service nscd donedone
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:28.958558000> service postfix startStarting mail service (Postfix)done
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.381385000> service postfix done<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.382148000> service cron startStarting CRON daemon
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.400345000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/cron)  /usr/sbin/cron ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console SELINUX_INIT=YES ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext4 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 powersaved=off LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.86 apm=off DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=124 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin vga=0x317 DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/openSUSE/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg DO_QUIET=no edd=off PREVLEVEL=N LINES=44 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-00YGA0_WD-WCASE0003942-part3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/cron ]
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.410664000> service cron donedone
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.410769000> service sbl start<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.424316000> service sbl doneStarting sbl
done
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.424504000> service smartd startStarting smartd 
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.636075000> service splash start<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.641351000> service sshd start<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.651529000> service splash done<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.655237000> startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/sshd)  /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid ],  DO_FASTBOOT=no CONSOLE=/dev/console SELINUX_INIT=YES ROOTFS_FSTYPE=ext4 SHELL=/bin/sh TERM=linux ROOTFS_FSCK=0 powersaved=off LC_ALL=POSIX INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.86 apm=off DO_BLOGD=yes REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=124 PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin vga=0x317 DO_CONFIRM=no RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ SPLASHCFG=/etc/bootsplash/themes/openSUSE/config/bootsplash-1024x768.cfg DO_QUIET=no edd=off PREVLEVEL=N LINES=44 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 DO_FORCEFSCK=no SPLASH=yes ROOTFS_BLKDEV=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-00YGA0_WD-WCASE0003942-part3 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/sshd ]
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.670734000> service sshd doneStarting SSH daemondone
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.945636000> service smartd donedone
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.945831000> service SuSEfirewall2_setup start<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.955183000> service stoppreload start<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:29.979703000> service stoppreload donedone
Starting Firewall Initialization (phase 2 of 2) 
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:30.86199000> service SuSEfirewall2_setup donedone
Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached
Failed services in runlevel 5: avahi-daemon network-remotefs
Skipped services in runlevel 5: earlyxdm smbfs nfs xdm
<notice -- Mar 21 23:23:30.102437000> killproc: kill(1038,3)

THe NetworkManager log which is also reporting errors:


Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_dbus_manager_init_bus(): Could not get the system bus.  Make sure the message bus daemon is running!  Message: Failed to connect to socket /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;WARN&gt;  nm_dbus_manager_name_has_owner(): NameHasOwner request failed: (unknown)
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the modem-manager...
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_call_no_reply: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_manager_init(): nm_manager_init: could not initialize avahi-autoipd D-Bus proxy
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;WARN&gt;  nm_manager_init(): nm_manager_init: could not initialize system settings properties D-Bus proxy
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_connection_register_g_object: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;WARN&gt;  nm_dbus_manager_name_has_owner(): NameHasOwner request failed: (unknown)
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;info&gt;  Waiting for HAL to start...
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_dbus_manager_name_has_owner(): NameHasOwner request failed: (unknown)
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;WARN&gt;  nm_dhcp_manager_new(): Error: could not init DHCP manager proxy
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_add_signal: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: nm_dhcp_manager_set_hostname_provider: assertion `NM_IS_DHCP_MANAGER (manager)' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;WARN&gt;  nm_dbus_manager_start_service(): Could not acquire the NetworkManager service.#012  Error: '(unknown)'
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;WARN&gt;  main(): Failed to start the dbus service.
Mar 21 23:23:28 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;info&gt;  exiting (error)
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;info&gt;  starting...
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;WARN&gt;  nm_dbus_manager_init_bus(): Could not get the system bus.  Make sure the message bus daemon is running!  Message: Failed to connect to socket /usr/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_dbus_manager_name_has_owner(): NameHasOwner request failed: (unknown)
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;info&gt;  Trying to start the modem-manager...
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_call_no_reply: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;WARN&gt;  nm_manager_init(): nm_manager_init: could not initialize avahi-autoipd D-Bus proxy
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_manager_init(): nm_manager_init: could not initialize system settings properties D-Bus proxy
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_connection_register_g_object: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_dbus_manager_name_has_owner(): NameHasOwner request failed: (unknown)
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <info>  Waiting for HAL to start...
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: &lt;WARN&gt;  nm_dbus_manager_name_has_owner(): NameHasOwner request failed: (unknown)
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_dhcp_manager_new(): Error: could not init DHCP manager proxy
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_add_signal: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_connect_signal: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: nm_dhcp_manager_set_hostname_provider: assertion `NM_IS_DHCP_MANAGER (manager)' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: dbus_g_proxy_call: assertion `DBUS_IS_G_PROXY (proxy)' failed
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_dbus_manager_start_service(): Could not acquire the NetworkManager service.#012  Error: '(unknown)'
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <WARN>  main(): Failed to start the dbus service.
Mar 21 23:32:41 linux-zwls NetworkManager: <info>  exiting (error)

Cheers!

Edward_Iii · March 22, 2010, 3:20pm

Hello Catchy,

I couldn’t find anything helpful in that boot log.
But I’ve got a new idea.

Boot your computer and log in.
Go to the folder “/etc/X11/”.
Run this command to make a backup of your current xorg.conf:

cp xorg.conf xorg.conf.BU

Now run this command to reconfigure Xorg:

sax2 -r

Best of luck!

Akoellh · March 22, 2010, 3:28pm

I love those “I didn’t do anything” and “suddenly things went wrong” threads.

Especially, when the messages clearly show, that somebody must have “done something” with the system.

In this case “somebody” (BTW, in most cases it was “somebody else who messed it up”, never the OP himself, also interesting to note) must have installed (at least) dbus from source or some incompatible package instead of using the distro’s RPMs.

“Call exhibit A”

Warning: Couldn't connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket 
**/usr/local/**var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

I rest my case …

user · March 22, 2010, 4:02pm

Akoellh wrote:
> I love those “I didn’t do anything” and “suddenly things went wrong”
> threads.

i was walking through the kitchen when suddenly two of the still warm
sweet-rolls vaporized…they just disappeared…there one second,
gone the next…along with a glass of milk…but the glass itself
remained…

as far as i know a flying saucer flew by and took it all for ‘research’…

i told her that a dozen times and she still refuses to accept the facts!

i do not understand women.

–
palladium

vineetgupta · August 8, 2010, 10:07pm

Hello Edward,

I am facing the same problem. I am using opensuse 11.3. I have install the update from Yast and after reboot getting the message:

Failed services in run level 5:
Skipped services in run level 5:

and after I find the login command.

Please help me

Thank you in advance.

alpha1beta · August 18, 2010, 3:44am

Same issue, Network-remotefs among other network services on runlevel 5 do not start.
X crashes and loges me out as soon as i open chrome or firefox. Stuck using Opera.