Systemd / Logind session broken?

Question

Hi,
I am having problems with my standard desktop user. Several things don't work, I already posted the issue in the update-subforum. I think I might have narrowed down the issue some more and it does not seem to be update-related. Hence this new try to get help :-)
I have been using systemd since Arch changed to it from initscripts. Since recently without problems. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Users_and_Groups/ says, that no groups are needed for the standard desktop user. But I can not mount usb storage, have no sound and no control over networkmanager. I can however start VirtualBox, although my user is not in the "vboxusers" group, my user is in "users" and "wheel" only. The page also mentions, that if things don't work, I should check https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ge … ermissions, which I did. The output of
loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID
ControlGroupHierarchy=/user
ResetControllers=cpu
NAutoVTs=6
KillExcludeUsers=root
KillUserProcesses=no
IdleHint=yes
IdleSinceHint=0
IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0
DelayInhibited=sleep
InhibitDelayMaxUSec=5s
HandlePowerKey=poweroff
HandleSuspendKey=suspend
HandleHibernateKey=hibernate
HandleLidSwitch=suspend
IdleAction=ignore
IdleActionUSec=30min
PreparingForShutdown=no
PreparingForSleep=no
There should be
Remote=no
and
Active=yes
, but there is not. If not, I should make sure that X runs on the same tty where the login occurred.
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
is supposed to be my friend:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -z "$XDG_VTNR" ]; then
exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@"
else
exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@" vt$XDG_VTNR
fi
I think my X session is on the same tty session as the login, since I log into KDE (not into ttyX and then start X).
What to I do now? Is there anything wrong? Can you lead me into the right direction?

Answer 1

Archcowboy wrote:I think my X session is on the same tty session as the login, since I log into KDE (not into ttyX and then start X).
The problem might be in the display manager you use to login, which one are you using ?  (KDM, GDM, Slim, XDM, LXDM etc)
Either way, i suggest you temporarily boot to multi-user.target by adding systemd.unit=multi-user.target to your boot kernel parameters.
This will bring you to console without starting the DM or X /
login to console as user, edit ~/.xinitrc to start kde and run startx .
Once in X, run the loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID command again (post the output) and compare with the one you posted above.
if $XDG_SESSION_ID is correct this way (and sound etc work) , the problem is very likely in the configuration of your DM.
Edit :
corrected typo's
Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2013-08-15 13:20:51)