[BlueOnyx:22461] Re: (no subject)

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Herbert,

> I am getting this message:
> 
> Failed to get D-Bus connection: Too many levels of symbolic links
> 
> when trying to restart httpd.
> I can't even shutdown -r now
> 
> Any ideas?
Yeah, this is one of the shitty Systemd problems that occasionally pop up.

Here is how to fix it:

1.) Please check if /var/run is a symbolic link to /run and most likely
it is not.

The typical fix is to do this:

rm -R /var/run
ln -s /run /var/run

2.) Check if /run/dbus/system_bus_socket is a Symbolic link to
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket. That should also not be the case.

If it is, do the following:

rm /run/dbus/system_bus_socket
rm -R /var/run
ln -s /run /var/run

And yes: There is then no way around a reboot after either one of these
two. :-/

Now if "shutdown -r" doesn't work, try "/sbin/reboot" instead.

If none of this works, do the following. Copy both the following two
lines ...

echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger

... and paste them into SSH as "root". Your SSH session will either hang
or drop immediately, but the server will reboot no matter what.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber