bug#52051: [core-updates-frozen] cannot login ('org.freedesktop.login1' service times out)

[Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>]

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Hi Leo,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 04:31:27AM -0500, Timothy Sample wrote:
>> [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/blob/master/NEWS#L2487
>> [2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86431#c3
>> 
>> After reading that I tried with the timeout bumped up to a minute, and
>> the X200 booted into GDM just fine, twice in row, and then failed again
>> when I removed the change.  (I should add that it still printed the
>> “elogind is already running” messages, but it worked anyway.)
>
> Okay, great. I don't "auth_timeout" in the Guix source tree. Can you say
> where you adjusted it?

Good question!  :)  Here’s the patch:


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diff --git a/gnu/services/dbus.scm b/gnu/services/dbus.scm
index 85a4c3e..a680ed7 100644
--- a/gnu/services/dbus.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/dbus.scm
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ (define-syntax directives
         (define (services->sxml services)
           ;; Return the SXML 'includedir' clauses for DIRS.
           `(busconfig
+            (limit (@ (name "auth_timeout")) "60000")
             (servicehelper "/run/setuid-programs/dbus-daemon-launch-helper")
 
             ;; First, the '.service' files of services subject to activation.