FC4 bus error message at boot time

[James Wilkinson]

Andy Green wrote:
> "System Message Bus" is a software bus service, it's not the old
> hardware "Bus Error" that makes strong men weep.
> 
> You should have a line like this in
> 
> /etc/passwd
> 
> named:x:25:25:Named:/var/named:/sbin/nologin
> 
> if not, stick it in and the error might go away.

$ rpm -q --scripts bind
preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
/usr/sbin/groupadd -g 25 named >/dev/null 2>&1 || :;
/usr/sbin/useradd -c "Named" -u 25 -g named \
        -s /sbin/nologin -r -d /var/named named >/dev/null 2>&1 || :;
<snip>

In other words, named should have been added by the bind package.

Does the Original Poster have that installed? Does he have
caching-nameserver, NetworkManager, or anything else that depends on it?

If bind isn't installed, I'd recommend doing a
yum install bind

If the Original Poster didn't have bind installed, and hadn't tried
installing any RPM's with --force, and hasn't mucked about manually,
*and* has all the latest updates installed, this probably ought to go
into bugzilla.

Hope this helps,

James.

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