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Cannot login after graphical install

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From: Jussi Kuokkanen <jussi.kuokkanen <at> protonmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#37191: Cannot login after graphical install
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:05:28 +0000

> Hi Jussi,
>
> Jussi Kuokkanen via Bug reports for GNU Guix bug-guix <at> gnu.org skribis:
>
> > I'm getting a "Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session" after logging into the installed system, which returns me to the login prompt. The cause seems to be shepherd failing to start dbus, which PAM depends on. System config file and logs as attachments.
>
> [...]
>
> > 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?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

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.

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