Description of problem: I almost always (80-90%?) get the following timeout errors when booting my system: Sep 19 16:21:21 myserver dbus[900]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper) Sep 19 16:21:21 myserver dbus-daemon[900]: dbus[900]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper) Sep 19 16:21:46 myserver dbus[900]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher': timed out Sep 19 16:21:46 myserver dbus-daemon[900]: dbus[900]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher': timed out Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager.x86_64 1:0.9.4-6.git20120521.fc16 @updates How reproducible: Fails most of the time, however, occasionally nm_dispatcher succeeds... I'm guessing that there's a timing issue in the code. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Simply boot your system 2. 3. Additional info: Every once in a while (10-20%?), nm_dispatcher succeeds, and the output looks like: Sep 19 17:14:06 myserver dbus[891]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper) Sep 19 17:14:06 myserver dbus-daemon[891]: dbus[891]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' (using servicehelper) Sep 19 17:14:06 myserver dbus[891]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' Sep 19 17:14:06 myserver dbus-daemon[891]: dbus[891]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher' Server is a Dell Optiplex 390 with a Intel i5 2400 CPU with Intel H61 Express Chipset.
It looks like systemd has a problem in activation nm_dispatcher (maybe it crashed or something). Can we see systemd logs? Do you see a crash in abrt? What happens if you run: # /usr/libexec/nm-dispatcher.action --persist --debug
Jirka, I do not see a crash in abrt. Couldn't see anything related in dmesg either. If you tell me how to get/provide the systemd logs, I'd be happy to give them to you. I went to http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging to see what else I could provide. I'll attach the NM stuff from the output of systemctl dump (the entire output is over 15K lines) I already gave you any output I could find related to the problem from /var/log/messages (included in the text above). Running /usr/libexec/nm-dispatcher.action --persist --debug... The process just sits there, no output to tty, no failure. I had to ^C to get my prompt back. I let it run for a few minutes. Didn't know what you expected to see...
Created attachment 622465 [details] NM-related output from systemctl dump
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