Re: "not authorised" doing various desktoppy things [and 1 more messages]

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Michael Biebl writes ("Re: "not authorised" doing various desktoppy things"):
> Check if your session is marked as active and local
> $ loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID

I see (amongst other things):

  Remote=no
  Active=yes
  State=active

> Might be #844785

Perhaps it is.  The symptoms seem similar.

Obviously it's not ideal that systemd-shim is orphaned.  I would like
to fix this rather than just working around it by putting my account
in some appropriate config files.

Can anyone suggest a better strategy than a git bisect on the systemd
package source code ?  I have frankly no idea what to expect from the
communication between systemd-shim and systemd-logind, or even where
to look for logs.

I found this in my .xsession-errors:

 dbus-update-activation-environment: systemd --user not found, ignoring --systemd argument

And this in my Xorg.0.log:

 Xorg.0.log:[     8.993] (II) systemd-logind: logind integration requires -keeptty and -keeptty was not provided, disabling logind integration

I'm not sure I need "logind integration" in my X server but perhaps I
do ?
 
Simon McVittie writes ("Re: "not authorised" doing various desktoppy things"):
> [stuff]

Thanks for the comprehensive explanation.

> None of this works unless you have libpam-systemd installed and enabled.
> That PAM module is somewhat mis-named: it's really for systemd-logind,
> the user/login manager, and not the systemd init/service manager.

In fact I didn't have libpam-systemd installed for some strange
reason, but installing it hasn't helped.  (All the symptoms I report
above are with it installed.)

Ian.

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