Bug 1045850

I can confirm that the same bug is also present when trying to install Fedora 20 from a 32bit kde livecd to an Asus A6000 pc. All 10-20 attempts to start the liveinst program has failed.

From my searching so far this seems to be related to be d-bus related. From http://kkaempf.blogspot.com/2009/03/d-bus-service-on-demand.html?showComment=1268111398629#c7898965014984453127:


the problem was ... file ownership ... One of the files that got changed to root:root ownership was dbus-daemon-launch-helper. That has now been fixed and the installer is running in a VM as I'm typing this.

Oh yeah, the weird error message was something about "Inhibit all polling failed..."

Created attachment 877902 [details]
strace output from failing udisks

Extract from a log from running liveinst through strace, showing that the failing point is the udisks program.

Summary:

execve("/usr/bin/udisks", ["/usr/bin/udisks", "--inhibit", "--", "anaconda", "--liveinst", "--method=livecd:///dev/mapper/live-base"], [/* 19 vars */]) = 0
...
connect(4, {sa_family=AF_LOCAL, sun_path="/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket"}, 33) = 0
...
recvmsg(4, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"l\3\1\1G\0\0\0\3\0\0\0u\0\0\0\6\1s\0\6\0\0\0:1.117\0\0\4\1s\0)\0\0\0org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\5\1u\0\4\0\0\0\10\1g\0\1s\0\0\7\1s\0\24\0\0\0org.freedesktop.DBus\0\0\0\0B\0\0\0Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.UDisks': no such name\0l\3\1\1G\0\0\0\4\0\0\0u\0\0\0\6\1s\0\6\0\0\0:1.117\0\0\4\1s\0)\0\0\0org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\5\1u\0\5\0\0\0\10\1g\0\1s\0\0\7\1s\0\24\0\0\0org.freedesktop.DBus\0\0\0\0B\0\0\0Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.UDisks': no such name\0", 2048}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC}, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = 414
...
write(1, "Inhibit all polling failed: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.\n", 239) = 239

Several other services had problems, for instance logind:

...
Mar 23 17:57:53 localhost systemd-logind: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event1 (Sleep Button)
Mar 23 17:58:58 localhost systemd: systemd-logind.service operation timed out. Terminating.
Mar 23 17:58:58 localhost systemd: Failed to start Login Service.
Mar 23 17:58:58 localhost systemd: Unit systemd-logind.service entered failed state.
Mar 23 17:58:58 localhost systemd: systemd-logind.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Mar 23 17:58:58 localhost systemd: Stopping Login Service...
Mar 23 17:58:58 localhost systemd: Starting Login Service...
Mar 23 17:59:21 localhost dbus-daemon: dbus[671]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' unit='packagekit.service'
Mar 23 17:59:21 localhost dbus[671]: [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' unit='packagekit.service'
Mar 23 17:59:23 localhost dbus-daemon: dbus[671]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
Mar 23 17:59:23 localhost dbus[671]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
Mar 23 17:59:23 localhost systemd-logind: Failed to enable subscription: Activation of org.freedesktop.systemd1 timed out
Mar 23 17:59:23 localhost systemd-logind: New seat seat0.
Mar 23 17:59:23 localhost systemd-logind: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event2 (Power Button)
Mar 23 17:59:23 localhost systemd-logind: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event5 (Video Bus)
Mar 23 17:59:23 localhost systemd-logind: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event0 (Lid Switch)
Mar 23 17:59:23 localhost systemd-logind: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event1 (Sleep Button)
...

So trying to log in on the Ctrl-Alt-F2 tty was not possible (completely black screen, no text).

Updating systemd with "yum update systemd" to version systemd-208-15.fc20.i686 solved at least the logind problem, and now liveinst is able to successfully start anaconda. So it seems like the core problem was something with the systemd version used on the livecd.

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