[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#939510: Bug#939510: upower.service: Failed to set up user namespacing: Invalid argument

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> [2019-09-05 21:36 +0200]:

> Am 05.09.19 um 21:10 schrieb Elimar Riesebieter:
> > * Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> [2019-09-05 20:41 +0200]:
> > 
> >> Control: forcemerge -1 939468
> >>
> >> Am 05.09.19 um 19:48 schrieb Salvo Tomaselli:
> >>> Package: upower
> >>> Version: 0.99.11-1
> >>> Severity: important
> >>> Tags: patch
> >>>
> >>> Dear Maintainer,
> >>>
> >>> upon reboot I could not access my graphical session because upowerd was failing
> >>> to be started by systemd.
> >>>
> >>> And apparently without it running sddm only shows garbage on screen.
> >>>
> >>> set 05 19:04:52 serenity systemd[1]: Stopped Daemon for power management.
> >>> set 05 19:04:52 serenity systemd[1]: Starting Daemon for power management...
> >>> set 05 19:04:52 serenity systemd[950]: upower.service: Failed to set up user namespacing: Invalid argument
> >>> set 05 19:04:52 serenity systemd[950]: upower.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/lib/upower/upowerd: Invalid argument
> >>> set 05 19:04:52 serenity systemd[1]: upower.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
> >>> set 05 19:04:52 serenity systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
> >>> set 05 19:04:52 serenity systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon for power management.
> >>> set 05 19:04:53 serenity systemd[1]: upower.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
> >>> set 05 19:04:53 serenity systemd[1]: upower.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2.
> >>>
> >>> I have a long list of those.
> >>>
> >>> Commenting the user namespace directive solves the issue for me.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Duplicate of #939468
> >>
> >> You are both using a custom kernel.
> >> If I had to guess, I'd say that's the culprit.
> > 
> > 0.99.10-1 runs fine, though. Which kernelconfig is necessary to run
> > 0.99.11?
> 
> I'd start with what's documented in /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.gz
> and if that is not sufficient, diff your config with the one from the
> Debian kernel.

CONFIG_USER_NS was not set. Thanks for the hint.

Elimar
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