On 17-07-12 19:38, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Before I roll it out to users for their workstations, I updated my own > system to 6.3, just did an update a few minutes ago, then rebooted. Came > up... but when I went to use my PIV card for credentials to certain other > machines, it didn't read the card. I found that pcscd was not running - > when I did a service restart, it said "failed" on shutdown, then ok on > startup. chkconfig --list tells me it's supposed to be on. > > Now, I'm pretty sure I saw this behavior with motion on a server I did a > week or so ago, also: same thing, chkconfig says it should be on, but it > was never turned up. This is a reboot after update, not a new install, and > selinux is permissive in both cases. > > Has anyone else seen this, with optional services? There was also an issue with PostgreSQL not starting after installing the latest updates. The culprit seems to be the sudo update: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=818585 So try this first: # restorecon /etc/nsswitch.conf Then try to start the pcscd service again to see if that fixes it. Regards, Patrick