uuidd fails to start because it is unable to create it's pid file in /var/run The reason is that /var/run (which is a symlink to /run) is owned by root, and uuidd runs as itself, with uid of uuidd, which has no permissons to create the dir uuidd in /run, ergo cannot create the uuidd.pid file. So, I moded /etc/init.d/uuidd to create the dir and chown it to uuidd:uuidd That works. HOWEVER.... starting uuidd after the mod, it hangs for about 5 minutes looking for /var/lib/libuuid/uuidd.pid file, which is never created, and systemctl reports failure; albeit, uuidd remains running. I have been notified by another fedora user that it is broken in F17 as well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): uuidd-2.20.1-2.3.fc16.i686 How reproducible: systemctl start uuidd.service Steps to Reproduce: 1. start uuidd 2. 3. Actual results: failure Expected results: no failure Additional info:
wrong component, # rpm -qif /etc/init.d/uuidd Name : uuidd ... ... Source RPM : util-linux-2.21.1-1.fc17.src.rpm ... reassigning
util-linux-2.21.2-2.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/util-linux-2.21.2-2.fc17
Package util-linux-2.21.2-2.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing util-linux-2.21.2-2.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-9673/util-linux-2.21.2-2.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
util-linux-2.21.2-2.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.