Bug#764298: "Failed to start Login Service." after upgrade to 215-5+b1

[I. Schrey]

Am 07.10.2014 um 01:32 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>
> You don't have the dbus package installed, which is a recommends of the
> systemd package and required by the logind service. See also the
> changelog message:
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> systemd (215-3) experimental; urgency=medium
>
> [...]
>
>    * Make systemd recommend dbus so it is installed on upgrades. The dbus
>      system bus is required to run systemd-logind and the autovt feature
> relies
>      on logind. (Closes: #758111)
>
>
>
> I assume you have installation of recommends disabled.
Yes.

> If you install the dbus package, your problem should be gone.
>

Duh, the changelog. *hides*

'autovt' got me digging, and I ended up disabling the
'systemd-logind.service' by removing the symlink in
/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ -
no more errors on boot.
(if that's not the correct way to disable, don't bother -
I'll figure out tomorrow how to do it properly)

I'd like to keep this system as lean as possible, and
reading the systemd-logind.service manpage suggests
that this system can do without logind (headless).


So case closed I guess.
I'll be back though, if dbus becomes a hard dependency. ;)

Nah, just kidding.

In any case, a big 'Thank you!' for all your Debian related work.

Regards
Ingmar