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[core-updates-frozen] cannot login ('org.freedesktop.login1' service times out)

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Message #100 received at 52051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: Timothy Sample <samplet <at> ngyro.com>, 52051 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#52051: [core-updates-frozen] cannot login
 ('org.freedesktop.login1' service times out)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 13:11:08 -0500

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 05:51:28PM +0000, Maxime Devos wrote:
> I don't think commenting new code is a drastic and extreme action.
> I assume you were referring you were referring to the ‘16.6 hours’?

Right. We don't want to use a timeout of 16.6 hours. From the
perspective of a user, that's not meaningfully longer than, say, 30
minutes. And really, if the system can't bring up the login interface
for a laptop in 5 minutes, it's totally broken.

> If so, just replace ‘16.6 hours’ by ‘one minute’, because it turns
> out that 'auth_timeout' is in milliseconds and not seconds,
> see <https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-daemon.1.html>.

I think I was confused about the units here.

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