'journalctl -o cat -xb' shows: ... [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.ColorManager' unit='colord.service' [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.ColorManager': timed out [system] Activating systemd to hand-off: service name='org.freedesktop.ColorManager' unit='colord.service' [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' If I try to start colord manually, I get: root@gepard:/usr/src/linux(12)# systemctl status colord ● colord.service - Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/colord.service; static) Active: inactive (dead) root@gepard:/usr/src/linux(13)# systemctl start colord Job for colord.service failed. See 'systemctl status colord.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. root@gepard:/usr/src/linux(15)# systemctl status colord.service ● colord.service - Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/colord.service; static) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Tue 2014-09-30 16:58:33 CEST; 1min 27s ago Process: 14834 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/colord (code=killed, signal=TERM) Main PID: 14834 (code=killed, signal=TERM) Sep 30 16:57:03 gepard colord[14834]: Using mapping database file /var/lib/colord/mapping.db Sep 30 16:57:03 gepard colord[14834]: Using device database file /var/lib/colord/storage.db Sep 30 16:57:03 gepard colord[14834]: Using profile database file /var/lib/colord/storage.db Sep 30 16:57:03 gepard colord[14834]: loaded plugin libcd_plugin_scanner.so Sep 30 16:57:03 gepard colord[14834]: loaded plugin libcd_plugin_camera.so Sep 30 16:57:03 gepard colord[14834]: Daemon ready for requests Sep 30 16:58:33 gepard systemd[1]: colord.service start operation timed out. Terminating. Sep 30 16:58:33 gepard systemd[1]: Failed to start Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles. Sep 30 16:58:33 gepard systemd[1]: Unit colord.service entered failed state. root@gepard:/usr/src/linux(15)# journalctl -xn -- Logs begin at Mon 2014-09-15 13:43:06 CEST, end at Tue 2014-09-30 16:59:01 CEST. -- Sep 30 16:57:57 gepard systemd-logind[14840]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event1 (Sleep Button) Sep 30 16:57:57 gepard systemd-logind[14840]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event8 (ThinkPad Extra Buttons) Sep 30 16:57:57 gepard systemd-logind[14840]: New session 1 of user rose. -- Subject: A new session 1 has been created for user rose -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- Documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat -- -- A new session with the ID 1 has been created for the user rose. -- -- The leading process of the session is 2118. Sep 30 16:57:57 gepard systemd-logind[14840]: New session c1 of user root. -- Subject: A new session c1 has been created for user root -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- Documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat -- -- A new session with the ID c1 has been created for the user root. -- -- The leading process of the session is 2440. Sep 30 16:57:57 gepard systemd-logind[14840]: New session 2 of user rose. -- Subject: A new session 2 has been created for user rose -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- Documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat -- -- A new session with the ID 2 has been created for the user rose. -- -- The leading process of the session is 3505. Sep 30 16:57:57 gepard systemd-logind[14840]: New session c2 of user root. -- Subject: A new session c2 has been created for user root -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- Documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat -- -- A new session with the ID c2 has been created for the user root. -- -- The leading process of the session is 3941. Sep 30 16:58:33 gepard systemd[1]: colord.service start operation timed out. Terminating. Sep 30 16:58:33 gepard systemd[1]: Failed to start Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles. -- Subject: Unit colord.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit colord.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Sep 30 16:58:33 gepard systemd[1]: Unit colord.service entered failed state. Sep 30 16:59:01 gepard cron[14851]: (root) CMD (rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) This happens at thinkpad t410 with BIOS 6IET74WW (1.34 ), EC 6IHT38WW-1.13. root@gepard:/usr/src/linux(17)# emerge --info Portage 2.2.14_rc1 (python 2.7.8-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.16.3-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.16.3-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_M_620_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 3903392 total, 2087168 free KiB Swap: 12582908 total, 12582908 free Timestamp of tree: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 06:30:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p50 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.8, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.1 dev-util/cmake: 3.0.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.16 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo sage-on-gentoo science sunrise x11 ago tlp local g-cpan g-octave Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL Intel-SDP dlj-1.1 skype-eula skype-4.0.0.7-copyright googleearth AdobeFlash-11.x cadsoft Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE MakeMKV-EULA NVIDIA-CUDA Nero-AAC-EULA GIMPS" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=generic -Os -pipe -msse3 -msse4 -mcx16 -msahf -mpopcnt -mpreferred-stack-boundary=6" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=generic -Os -pipe -msse3 -msse4 -mcx16 -msahf -mpopcnt -mpreferred-stack-boundary=6" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-march=core2 -mtune=generic -Os -pipe -msse3 -msse4 -mcx16 -msahf -mpopcnt -mpreferred-stack-boundary=6" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage_gepard" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/sage-on-gentoo /var/lib/layman/science /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/x11 /var/lib/layman/ago /var/lib/layman/tlp /usr/local/portage /var/lib/cpan /var/lib/g-octave" USE="64bit R X Xaw3d a52 aac acl acpi admin afs alsa amd64 ao apache2 apng applet archive armadillo arpack asf aspell atlas audacious audiofile automap automount bash-completion berkdb blas blast bluetooth bluray boost branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdf cdio cdparanoia cdr cg cgi chm cli cmake colord cracklib crypt css cups curl cxx daap db dbi dbm dbus declarative designer devhelp device-mapper dga dia dirac djvu doc dot dri ds2490 ds9097 ds9097u dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvi dynamicplugin eds egl elf emacs emboss emf encode epiphany evo examples exif expat extensions extra extras faac faad fam ffmpeg fftw firefox fits flac fltk fontconfig foomaticdb fortran fortran95 fpm fpx fuse g3dvl garmin gcj gd gdal gdbm gdu gedit geoip geolocation geos gfortran gif gimp git glade glamor glib glpk gml gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnome-online-accounts gnome-print gnuplot gnutls gold gphoto2 gpm grammar graphics graphtft graphviz grass gsl gsm gstreamer gtk gtk3 gudev guile hddtemp hdf hdf5 hdri html http httpd hvm hwdb iconv icq icu id3tag ide imagemagick imap inotify introspection ipod ipv6 irda ithreads jabber jadetex java java6 jbig jit john jpeg jpeg2k kate kdepim kdrive kerberos keymap kpathsea kvm ladspa lame lapack laptop latex lcms ldap lensfun libffi libkms libnotify libsamplerate libsecret lirc live lm_sensors lua lzma lzo mad mail maildir mapnik math matroska media-library mercurial mikmod mkl mmx mmxext mng mod modules mono motif mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mpi mplayer mtp multilib multimedia musepack musicbrainz mysql mysqli nautilus ncurses neXt netcdf netpbm network networking nfs nls nntp nptl nsplugin ntfs ntp numpy obex objc ocaml ocr octave odbc ofa ogdi ogg openexr opengl openmp openvg pam pango pcre pda pdf pdl2 perl plasma plotutils plugins png podcast policykit portaudio posix postgres postscript ppds preview-latex proj projectm pstricks pulseaudio python python-bindings q16 q32 qemu qhull qt3support qt4 quicktime raw readline reiserfs reports rle romio rpc rrdcgi rrdtool sage samba sasl schroedinger science sdk sdl secure-delete semantic-desktop server session shout sip slang slp smart smbclient smp sms sndfile snmp soap socialweb sockets sound soup sox speex spell sql sqlite sse sse2 sse4 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification stlport subtitles subversion sudo suexec svg svm swig systemd szip t1lib tcl tcpd tex tex4ht texmacs theora thesaurus thinkpad threads thunderbird tidy tiff tk tools truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb utempter v4l vaapi vala valgrind vdpau video virt-network virtualbox visio vorbis vpx vtk wav webdav webdav-serf webkit wifi wmf wxwidgets x264 xa xattr xcb xetex xext xft xine xml xmlreader xmlrpc xpm xv xvid xvmc yaml youtube zlib zvbi" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_core authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_core authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info lbmethod_byrequests log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif slotmem_shm so socache_shmcb speling status unique_id unixd userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="canon fuji ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CURL_SSL="nss" DRACUT_MODULES="caps lvm syslog" DVB_CARDS="usb-wt220u" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev synaptics void" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="cfontz hd44780 mtxorb ncurses X lcd2usb lcdlinux png usblcd" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de fr ru" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport cnd dlight enterprise ergonomics groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler websvccommon xml" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="arm i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nouveau displaylink" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON
Maybe there is a relation to: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50199
It starts fine for me, please retry with 1.2.3 and, if still failing, try running /usr/libexec/colord to see if we see anything interesting in its output
I run dbus-1.8.8
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #3) > I run dbus-1.8.8 The same here: root@gepard:/root(70)# qlist -Iv dbus ... sys-apps/dbus-1.8.8 root@gepard:/root(71)# qlist -Iv colord ... x11-misc/colord-1.2.3 root@gepard:/root(72)# systemctl status colord ● colord.service - Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/colord.service; static) Active: inactive (dead) root@gepard:/root(73)# systemctl stop colord root@gepard:/root(74)# systemctl start colord Job for colord.service failed. See 'systemctl status colord.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. root@gepard:/root(75)# systemctl status colord ● colord.service - Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/colord.service; static) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Fri 2014-10-10 15:08:50 CEST; 3min 2s ago Process: 11678 ExecStart=/usr/libexec/colord (code=killed, signal=TERM) Main PID: 11678 (code=killed, signal=TERM) Oct 10 15:07:20 gepard colord[11678]: Using mapping database file /var/lib/colord/mapping.db Oct 10 15:07:20 gepard colord[11678]: Using device database file /var/lib/colord/storage.db Oct 10 15:07:20 gepard colord[11678]: Using profile database file /var/lib/colord/storage.db Oct 10 15:07:20 gepard colord[11678]: loaded plugin libcd_plugin_scanner.so Oct 10 15:07:20 gepard colord[11678]: loaded plugin libcd_plugin_camera.so Oct 10 15:07:20 gepard colord[11678]: Daemon ready for requests Oct 10 15:08:50 gepard systemd[1]: colord.service start operation timed out. Terminating. Oct 10 15:08:50 gepard systemd[1]: Failed to start Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles. Oct 10 15:08:50 gepard systemd[1]: Unit colord.service entered failed state. root@gepard:/root(76)# ll -d /var/lib/colord/ drwxr-xr-x 3 colord root 4096 Jun 18 14:27 /var/lib/colord// root@gepard:/root(77)# ll /var/lib/colord/ total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 colord colord 4096 Oct 3 19:25 icc/ -rw-r--r-- 1 colord colord 4096 Aug 2 2013 mapping.db -rw-r--r-- 1 colord colord 8192 Jun 18 14:27 storage.db root@gepard:/root(79)# journalctl -xn -- Subject: A new seat seat0 is now available -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- Documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat -- -- A new seat seat0 has been configured and is now available. Oct 10 15:12:28 gepard systemd-logind[11810]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event2 (Power Button) Oct 10 15:12:28 gepard systemd-logind[11810]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event3 (Video Bus) Oct 10 15:12:28 gepard systemd-logind[11810]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event0 (Lid Switch) Oct 10 15:12:28 gepard systemd-logind[11810]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event1 (Sleep Button) Oct 10 15:12:28 gepard systemd-logind[11810]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event10 (ThinkPad Extra Buttons) Oct 10 15:12:28 gepard systemd-logind[11810]: New session 1 of user rose. -- Subject: A new session 1 has been created for user rose -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- Documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat -- -- A new session with the ID 1 has been created for the user rose. -- -- The leading process of the session is 2128. Oct 10 15:12:28 gepard systemd-logind[11810]: New session c1 of user root. -- Subject: A new session c1 has been created for user root -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- Documentation: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat -- -- A new session with the ID c1 has been created for the user root. -- -- The leading process of the session is 2403. '/usr/libexec/colord' hangs without output. '/usr/libexec/colord -v' says: root@gepard:/root(81)# /usr/libexec/colord -v 15:20:59 Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1) 15:20:59 CdMappingDb: trying to open database '/var/lib/colord/mapping.db' 15:20:59 CdDeviceDb: trying to open database '/var/lib/colord/storage.db' 15:20:59 CdProfileDb: trying to open database '/var/lib/colord/storage.db' 15:20:59 display card0-LVDS-1 has ID 'xrandr-Lenovo' from MD5 46d063b31aa4bfa4aa488b784881c4eb 15:20:59 searching for plugins in /usr/lib64/colord-plugins 15:20:59 run cd_plugin_initialize on /usr/lib64/colord-plugins/libcd_plugin_scanner.so ... 15:20:59 CdMain: Emitting ProfileAdded(/org/freedesktop/ColorManager/profiles/icc_e729b445abc89051fe8ba7c6d8e9b127) 15:20:59 CdMain: Adding profile /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/profiles/icc_781f6f71344167d3526631689139f109 15:20:59 CdMain: Emitting ProfileAdded(/org/freedesktop/ColorManager/profiles/icc_781f6f71344167d3526631689139f109) 15:20:59 CdDeviceDb: get devices 15:20:59 run cd_plugin_coldplug on /usr/lib64/colord-plugins/libcd_plugin_scanner.so 15:20:59 finished cd_plugin_coldplug 15:20:59 run cd_plugin_coldplug on /usr/lib64/colord-plugins/libcd_plugin_camera.so 15:20:59 finished cd_plugin_coldplug The complete output is in a attachment. An subsequent 'systemctl start colord' fails again: root@gepard:/root(85)# systemctl stop colord root@gepard:/root(86)# psgrep colord USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root@gepard:/root(87)# systemctl start colord Job for colord.service failed. See 'systemctl status colord.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
Created attachment 386378 [details] output of '/usr/libexec/colord -v'
still the same with 1.2.8?
or 1.2.9 now
