Bug#769069: systemd: Failed to start Login Service

[Simon McVittie]

On 15/11/14 00:16, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 14.11.2014, 10:18 +0000 schrieb Simon McVittie:
>> It looks as though the system might have been having performance 
>> issues in general:
...
>> which might have contributed to timeouts, possibly?

I happened to notice (via LWN) that Mageia have reverted part of a
recent dbus denial-of-service fix. If D-Bus connections on your system
are legitimately taking more than 5 seconds to complete
authentication, then that could be causing this.

You could test that by adding

  <limit name="auth_timeout">30000</limit>

to /etc/dbus-1/system.conf (just above the </busconfig> would work,
look at session.conf to see the right syntax). That would revert that
change, bringing it back up to 30 seconds.

I'll look into adding logging when this timeout is hit.

    S