Subject: bug#37191: Cannot login after graphical install

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:15:45 +0200

Hello,

(Please keep the bug Cc’d.)

Jussi Kuokkanen <[email-masked]> skribis:

>> > Aug 26 15:14:04 localhost login[203]: pam_elogind(login:session): Failed to connect to system bus: No such file or directory
>> > Aug 26 15:14:04 localhost login[203]: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user jussi by LOGIN(uid=0)
>> > Aug 26 15:14:04 localhost login[203]: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session
>>
>> It seems that there’s at least one serious problem, which is
>> /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket is unavailable, for some reason.
>>
>> Did the ‘dbus-system’ shepherd service start correctly, or did you get
>> messages suggesting otherwise?

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> It failed to start as can be seen from the 'debug' logfile:
>> Aug 26 01:27:27 localhost shepherd[1]: Service dbus-system could not be started.

Are there additional clues in /var/log/{messages,debug}, or perhaps on
tty1, as to why dbus failed to start?

Thanks,
Ludo’.