Bug#1108330: pam_systemd(sshd:session): Failed to create session: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.login1'

[Luca Boccassi]

Control: reassign -1 dbus 1.16.2-2

On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:10:55 +1000 Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au>
wrote:
> Package: libpam-systemd
> Version: 257.6-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> pam_systemd(sshd:session): Failed to create session: Failed to
activate service 'org.freedesktop.login1': timed out
(service_start_timeout=25000ms)
> 
> Last night logging in to one of my servers started taking a long time
with
> messages like the above in syslog.  All the google results for this
say to
> restart systemd-logind which has no affect.

If your system d-bus session is not working, then pam won't work
either, but it's not pam's fault. You need to debug why d-bus is not
working. Reassigning to the dbus package.