Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Marius,
>
> Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> 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.