Why do we see this message, Failed to talk to shutdownd, proceeding with immediate shutdown: Connection refused?
Issue
After creating the following scope unit, any commands that need to talk to dbus for IPC communication of systemd mechanisms fail.
# systemd-run --unit=topU --scope --slice=topS top -b
# systemctl status topU.scope
# systemctl daemon-reload
# shutdown
Failed to talk to shutdownd, proceeding with immediate shutdown: Connection refused
Failed to open /dev/initctl: No such device or address
Failed to talk to init daemon.
# systemctl status dbus
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Failed to connect to socket /run/systemd/private: Connection refused
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
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