Bug#760142: systemd: Assertions from systemd-logind on powerpc during login, with continuing loop

[Chris Tillman]

Package: systemd
Version: 208.8

(note: for some reason reportbug originally inserted the package and
version into the subject ...)

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
        I installed from a testing CD downloaded in early August. I
ran into login problems, but discovered I
        had booted with a Wheezy kernel originally. After
reconfiguring to boot with a correct kernel,
        and configuring a successful xorg.conf, the problems remained.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
        I updated the system (all packages) using aptitude to the very
latest testing version as of Aug 30.
        I then shut down the system and booted fresh on Aug 31. That
is the log I have attached.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
        The lightdm greeter comes up, and I can type in the user name
and password, but then the greeter
        restarts. The greeeter came up again, and this time I just
waited. The greeter restarted again.
        Finally after the greeter came up, I changed to Xfce and
entered user name and password. But
        the greeter still just restarted.

        In the journal log of the session (attached), I saw assertions
from both lightdm and systemd-logind.
        The first assertion in the log was from systemd-logind, so I
filed the bug on systemd. However there
        were also failures of both packages previous to the first
assertion. Here is a grep of only the
        assertions from the log.

Aug 31 09:11:24 debian systemd-logind[908]: Assertion 's->user->slice'
failed at ../src/login/logind-session.c:531, function
session_start_scope(). Aborting.
Aug 31 09:12:48 debian systemd-logind[943]: Assertion 's->user->slice'
failed at ../src/login/logind-session.c:531, function
session_start_scope(). Aborting.
Aug 31 09:14:03 debian systemd-logind[981]: Assertion 's->user->slice'
failed at ../src/login/logind-session.c:531, function
session_start_scope(). Aborting.
Aug 31 09:15:55 debian lightdm[1298]: (lightdm:1298):
GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_connection_call_sync_internal: assertion
'object_path != NULL && g_variant_is_object_path (object_path)' failed
Aug 31 09:16:47 debian systemd-logind[1318]: Assertion
's->user->slice' failed at ../src/login/logind-session.c:531, function
session_start_scope(). Aborting.

        I also note many timeout log entries. This is a rather slow
machine (PowerPC G4) compared to typical
        modern ones, so the timeouts might be set too short?

        In addition, when filing this bug report as it said it was
gathering additional data, before the
        question about fstab, this message appeared (I am filing from
the console):

        Activation of org.freedesktop.systemd1 timed out

        This is reflected by the following log statement. So I suspect
the same bug prevented getting additional info.
        I am happy to provide additional info if needed.

Aug 31 09:47:54 debian dbus[775]: [system] Failed to activate service
'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out


   * What outcome did you expect instead?
        Initiation of graphical environment.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl                  2.2.52-1
ii  adduser              3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts          2.88dsf-53.4
ii  libacl1              2.2.52-1
ii  libaudit1            1:2.3.7-1
ii  libblkid1            2.20.1-5.8
ii  libc6                2.19-9
ii  libcap2              1:2.24-4
ii  libcap2-bin          1:2.24-4
ii  libcryptsetup4       2:1.6.6-1
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.6-2
ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.4-2
ii  libkmod2             18-1
ii  liblzma5             5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g             1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1          2.3-1
ii  libsystemd-daemon0   208-8
ii  libsystemd-journal0  208-8
ii  libsystemd-login0    208-8
ii  libudev1             208-8
ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-25
ii  sysv-rc              2.88dsf-53.4
ii  udev                 208-8
ii  util-linux           2.20.1-5.8

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  libpam-systemd  208-8

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

-- no debconf information