Bug#885446: systemd: user processes remain after logout

[Ian Bruce]

Package: systemd
Version: 236-1
Severity: important

Is there any legitimate reason why after logging out of an XFCE session,
all these desktop processes should remain alive?


# ps axfu | grep ^ian
ian       1687  0.0  0.0  80544  8384 ?        Ss   19:35   0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
ian       1688  0.0  0.0 198308  3328 ?        S    19:35   0:00  \_ (sd-pam)
ian       1712  0.0  0.0  49884  4628 ?        Ss   19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
ian       1761  0.0  0.0 287908  6696 ?        Ssl  19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd
ian       1781  0.0  0.0 348884  8172 ?        Ssl  19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/at-spi2-core/at-spi-bus-launcher
ian       1786  0.0  0.0  49392  3612 ?        S    19:35   0:00  |   \_ /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/usr/share/defaults/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3
ian       1796  0.0  0.0  58948  5136 ?        S    19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd
ian       1803  0.0  0.0  94464  2928 ?        SLs  19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/bin/gpg-agent --supervised
ian       1866  0.0  0.0 362732 12304 ?        Ssl  19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor
ian       1870  0.0  0.0 286540  6172 ?        Ssl  19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor
ian       1874  0.0  0.0 377216  7432 ?        Ssl  19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-afc-volume-monitor
ian       1879  0.0  0.0 272236  5252 ?        Ssl  19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-goa-volume-monitor
ian       1883  0.0  0.0 274168  5560 ?        Ssl  19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor
ian       1903  0.0  0.0 364068  6684 ?        Sl   19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash --spawner :1.5 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0
ian       1908  0.0  0.0 187628  5084 ?        Sl   19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/dconf/dconf-service
ian       1925  0.0  0.0 198308  4380 ?        Ssl  19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-metadata
ian       2029  0.0  0.0  76028  5580 ?        S    19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gconf/gconfd-2
ian       1753  0.2  0.0 357636  7136 ?        Ssl  19:35   0:01 /usr/bin/ibus-daemon --daemonize --xim
ian       1773  0.0  0.0 276644  8308 ?        Sl   19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-dconf
ian       1806  0.0  0.0 200916  5752 ?        Sl   19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/ibus/ibus-engine-simple
ian       2051  0.0  0.0 303972 10976 ?        Sl   19:35   0:00  \_ /usr/lib/ibus-mozc/ibus-engine-mozc --ibus
ian       2055  0.0  0.1  95956 29312 ?        SLl  19:35   0:00      \_ /usr/lib/mozc/mozc_server
ian       1917  0.0  0.2 254324 33804 ?        Sl   19:35   0:00 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/share/system-config-printer/applet.py


It may be a related issue that also after logging out, a tmpfs remains
mounted at /run/user/<numeric-user-id>.



-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.116
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-3+b1
ii  libapparmor1    2.11.1-4
ii  libaudit1       1:2.8.2-1
ii  libblkid1       2.30.2-0.1
ii  libc6           2.25-5
ii  libcap2         1:2.25-1.2
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.7.5-1
ii  libgcrypt20     1.8.1-4
ii  libgpg-error0   1.27-5
ii  libidn11        1.33-2.1
ii  libip4tc0       1.6.1-2+b1
ii  libkmod2        24-1
ii  liblz4-1        0.0~r131-2+b1
ii  liblzma5        5.2.2-1.3
ii  libmount1       2.30.2-0.1
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.6
ii  libseccomp2     2.3.1-2.1
ii  libselinux1     2.7-2
ii  libsystemd0     236-1
ii  mount           2.30.2-0.1
ii  procps          2:3.3.12-3
ii  util-linux      2.30.2-0.1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.12.2-1
ii  libpam-systemd  236-1

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-18
pn  systemd-container  <none>

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut           <none>
ii  initramfs-tools  0.130
ii  udev             236-1

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