Bug#793814: Workaround for this bug

[Michael Biebl]

Hi James

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:55:05 -0700 James Bottomley
<James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 19:45 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Btw, in both cases (#770135 and #793814) the users have been restarting
> > the dbus daemon. You mentioned that you did not do that.
> > 
> > So I'm not sure if it's actually the same issue after all and your
> > problem should be tracked as a separate issue.
> 
> I'm starting to think it's a logind robustness problem.  I traced back
> through the logs to the first instance after reboot and this is what I
> find:

..

 Logind is still active and replies later in the trace, so it looks like
> dbus either dropped a message or did some type of unexpected disconnect.
> After this, logind works until it can't abandon the session, then it
> never replies on the bus again.  So I suspect somewhere in the error
> handling inside logind it doesn't cope with unexpected loss of dbus
> messages.

We recently had this upstream bug report, which looks like it could be
relevant:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1961

Do you see session scopes piling up on your system?

Regards,
Michael
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