Re: getting loginctl to work

[Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net>]

Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have guix system installed and want `loginctl poweroff` to work. I'm
> logged in via ssh. The vm is started using
> qemu-system-x86_64   -drive media=disk,file=geex-unenc.img,format=raw
> -bios /usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF.fd  -m 2G   -smp 3 -nic
> user,model=virtio-net-pci,hostfwd=tcp::2223-:22 -enable-kvm
>
>
> Currently loginctl does not work:
> $ strace -o loginctl.str loginctl poweroff
> returns 1 and prints no errors.
> loginctl.str shows some partial error message. I don't know how to get
> loginctl or dbus to be more verbose and show me the error.
> /var/log/secure does not show anything regarding that error.
>
> $ loginctl list
> SESSION UID USER SEAT  TTY
>      c1 983 gdm  seat0 tty7
>
> 1 sessions listed.
>
>
> First I tried configuring %base-services plus elogind-service-type,
> but it didn't work, so I tried %desktop-services, and it still doesn't
> work, but I'm sure it should. My (approximate) configuration.scm is
> attached.
>
>
> Martin
>
> [2. text/x-scheme; configuration.scm]...
>
> [3. application/vnd.pg.format; loginctl.str]...

Could it be that something is holding an inhibit lock on shutdown?  I
think ssh can do that.  It might even be automatic??
Try running elogind-inhibit with no arguments.