Fedora 18 problem

[marbles1704]

Hy,
i updated from kernel 3.7.5-201 to 3.7.6-201 and now i get on boot:

systemd[1] failed to load default target: no such file or directory

stsmd-cgroups-agent[46] failed to get D-Bus connection: failed to connect to socket /org/freedesktop/systemd1/private: connection refused.

can you help me please?

[nsnbm]

Hello marbles,

the first thing I would do is check to see whether or not there is a default target by opening a terminal and navigating to /etc/systemd/system. If there is no file there called 'default target' I would make a default target, as root, with something like:

 ln -s /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target /etc/systemd/system/default.target

which should get a login to a gui on bootup.

[marbles1704]

thank you .. i did that and i get ..

ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/etc/systemd/system/default.target’: File exists

[nsnbm]

Hello marbles,

Okay ... if the file existed, it wasn't going to be replaced. I guess that the next thing I would do would be to try and install the earlier kernel which did work properly. I install my kernels with rpm rather than yum, so when I do it I use the "-i" option, which is i for install, rather than use the "-U" option which is the upgrade option. If you use the upgrade option, the current kernel gets replaced with the new one upgrading it, but if you use the install option to install the new kernel, the old one is not replaced but just left in place in the /boot directory and so you can return to using it. It usually sits there as an option in the grub menu. So, I would try installing the old kernel and perhaps wait for a newer kernel to be released, and then install that one to see if your problem was just specific to this upgraded kernel that seems to be causing the problem. I know this is probably not ideal, but that's what I would be thinking of doing.

[marbles1704]

thank you .. i will wait another kernel release

[marbles1704]

i installed kernel 3.7.8-202 and i have the same problem .. is there a way to fix it?

[nsnbm]

Hello marbles,

I don't know why your system is behaving as you describe. In relation to the second error message you describe:

stsmd-cgroups-agent[46] failed to get D-Bus connection: failed to connect to socket /org/freedesktop/systemd1/private: connection refused.

I don't understand the failed connection to /org/... because there is no such directory on my system. What I do have is:
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service with the following contents:

# This file is part of systemd.
#
# systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.systemd1
Exec=/bin/false
User=root

I am wondering whether your dbus error has anything to do with this file. Perhaps you can check whether it exists, and if not, then copy this one in and reboot to see what happens. But before you do that, I also notice that in the directory /lib/systemd/system, there exist some dbus services: dbus.service, dbus.socket and the directory dbus.target.wants. Maybe if you enable all of these and start them with the systemctl command, it might make a difference. Enabling them them involves linking them into the /etc/systemd/system directory as root. Other than that, I'm pretty much out of ideas at the moment.

[marbles1704]

i did everything and the problem stil not solved. i have no more ideas