dnsmasq and other services failed to start with dbus error in RHEL 7.4 or later
Issue
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After yum update, dnsmasq and some other services failed to start with the following message:
dnsmasq[17501]: dnsmasq: DBus error: Connection ":1.96" is not allowed to own the service "org.dnsmasq" due to security policies in the configuration file dnsmasq[17501]: DBus error: Connection ":1.96" is not allowed to own the service "org.dnsmasq" due to security policies in the configuration fileApr 25 14:44:35 hostname systemd[1]: Started privileged operations for unprivileged applications. Apr 25 14:44:35 hostname systemd[1]: Starting privileged operations for unprivileged applications... Apr 25 14:44:35 hostname oddjobd[45553]: Error binding to service name "com.redhat.oddjob_mkhomedir"! Apr 25 14:44:35 hostname oddjobd[45553]: Error initializing service "com.redhat.oddjob_mkhomedir"! Apr 25 14:44:35 hostname oddjobd[45553]: Error registering with D-Bus layer! Apr 25 14:44:35 hostname systemd[1]: oddjobd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Apr 25 14:44:35 hostname systemd[1]: Unit oddjobd.service entered failed state. Apr 25 14:44:35 hostname systemd[1]: oddjobd.service failed.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 and later
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