Marius Bakke writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hi Marius, >> >> Marius Bakke skribis: >> >>> On a newly-installed i7 system, Shepherd believes that the "elogind" >>> service is not running. Yet there is an 'elogind-daemon' process, >>> spawned by PID 1, preventing subsequent "herd start elogind" invocations >>> from succeeding. >> >> Could you show the relevant /var/log/messages bits? That should show >> when/why elogind stopped. > > Indeed. It was because I had 'sddm-service-type' configured, which > attempted to communicate with "org.freedesktop.login1" over D-Bus, which > in turn autostarted elogind before shepherd had gotten around to it. Interestingly I suspected this exact scenario and checked the PPID of the running elogind process, which was '1'. When I then found that adding #:pid-file worked, I did not bother checking the log ... I would have expected D-Bus to be the parent PID.