This article will help you if you’re receiving any of the following error messages. The short answer is that you need to reboot the server.
Please add a comment if this helps you. I’d love some feedback to know if this is for Azure only.
Can't connect to system DBus: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.problems: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.problems': timed out
…and
'abrt-cli status' timed out
I was not able to find a solution by running restart commands. I believe the problem is related to kernel versions in memory and its dependencies. For the record, the servers i am seeing with this error are in Microsoft Azure.
In Reference to “‘abrt-cli status’ timed out”
Step 1. Check the ownership of “/home//.cache/abrt/lastnotification” file and correct it as per RHEL article “https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3077311”
i.e. If working with ‘user1’, then the ownership needs to be as below, group does not matter.
-rw——- 1 user1 group1 11 Jun 9 16:44 lastnotification
Verify
Step 2. If the issue still persists, (as i had)
Check for the status of the ‘abrtd’ service, in RHEL7 the output will indicate a locked file. i.e.
Apr 01 00:00:00 abrtd[18351]: Lock file ‘.lock’ is locked by process 7436
– Find the locking process and kill it.
– Check the ‘abrtd’ service status again
– If required, start the service
– Verify for error message.
Hope this helps/.