Saturday, May 28, 2011

Fedora 15 Upgrade - NetworkManager and rsyslog need to be enabled

The NetworkManager and rsyslog services were failing to start after the upgrade of the systems from Fedora 14. The workaround was working so well that I did not get around to looking into the issue till today.

A quick search for the error:
Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: 
No such file or directory.
The solution appeared to be that I needed to enable the service:
$sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager.service
It created symlinks in /etc/systemd/system and /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ folders.

Since this was likely to be the solution, I also tried
$sudo systemctl enable rsyslog.service
This also created a symlink in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/.

I removed the workaround script in /etc/rc.local. As expected, the system worked fine.

If I come across any more services which fail to start at boot time, e.g. nfs, I know what to try first.

I am, though, still curious - why is the ethernet device still eth0!

1 comment:

  1. Maybe Matt's positional network names were postponed. Good question though. Not that I am all that enthusiastic about it... It may be a problem for Dell, but sure wasn't a problem for anyone else. Heck I once talked to a sysadmin. He said "oh just just run ifup on all of them and let DHCP sort things out".

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