Bug#764471: [systemd] logind DBus GetSessionByPID() and GetUserByPID() fail

[Michael Biebl]

Am 08.10.2014 um 13:10 schrieb Marcin Szewczyk:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 215-5+b1
> Severity: normal
> 
> logind DBus GetSessionByPID() and GetUserByPID() fail even though
> ListSeats(), ListSessions() and ListUsers() work. loginctl returns a
> list a of seats/sessions.
> 
> I suppose this is the reason why polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
> fails to start with an error:
> (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:4794): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Unable
> to determine the session we are in: No session for pid 4794
> 
> This in turn makes it impossible to do things that policykit requires
> authentication for.
> 
> My X11 stack (ps fax) looks like this:
> /usr/sbin/lightdm
>  \_ /usr/bin/X :0 -seat seat0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
>  \_ lightdm --session-child 11 20
>      \_ /usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE -e LXDE
>          \_ openbox --config-file /home/wodny/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml
> 
> session optional pam_systemd.so is present in /etc/pam.d/common-session.
> 
> Probably the problem is related to bugs #728361 and #703016.
> 
> I use systemv for init. systemd-shim installed.
> /sbin/cgmanager --daemon -m name=systemd is running.

Please test if this is reproducible with systemd as PID 1. You don't
need to uninstall sysvinit-core for that.

Just reboot and add init=/lib/systemd/systemd to the kernel command line.


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