Unable to restart any services at RHEL 7.x
Issue
- In RHEL 7.1 server, we couldn't restart any services. It throws below error,
[root@localhost ~]# service virt-who restart
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart virt-who.service
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitMasked: Unit polkit.service is masked. (g-io-error-quark, 36)
- Unable to configure JBoss EAP to Run as a Service
root@(localhost) system # chkconfig --add jboss-eap-rhel.sh
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitMasked: Unit is masked. (g-io-error-quark, 36)
- We noticed that some of the other system control commands are also not working and giving below error.
root@(localhost) bin # systemctl restart sshd
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.UnitMasked: Unit is masked. (g-io-error-quark, 36)
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 7.x
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