On Mon, 17 May 2004 13:00:51 -0400 Beach Kid <beachkid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just installed Fedora 1 last Saturday onto my hard drive. It is a > dual boot into Windows 98 SE and Fedora. > > Upon shutting down, I get a "Failed" message for closing down > the "System Message Bus." I also get a "Failed" message when > the "Killall" prompt come up for stopping System Message Bus. > Underneath the "Killall", I also get a "Failed" on a blank line. > > I have a direct connection to Internet via cable from the local > cable television company and do not have a local network. > > How can I get an "OK" message when closing down the System > Message Bus? > This message is probably misleading. On my system it would start and then fail, so I saw OK at boot and Failed at shutdown. The cause on my system was that the 'dbus' user didn't exist. Re-installing the dbus rpm created this user. I've no idea why it wasn't created on the initial install (via kickstart). Regards, Chris