yum-updatesd refuses to run

[David Burns]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  sudo /usr/sbin/yum-updatesd --debug --no-fork
[...snip]
> dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied:
> Connection ":1.30956" is not allowed to own the service "edu.duke.linux.yum"
> due to security policies in the configuration file

wild guess - selinux. Test by making selinux permissive
(getenforce;setenforce 0) and trying again. If that didn't work, I'd
try to figure out which config file it's yapping about, maybe
/etc/dbus-1/system.conf
?
Dave