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Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with x-session termination?



On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 12:05:37PM +0000, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 11:39:46AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > I don't know the exact time that I closed the login shell on tty2.  It
> > *could* have been at exactly 11:19:00 but that seems like a suspiciously
> > round number (and a suspiciously long time after I started the service).
> 
> You don't, but your system(d) does: the system instance, not the user
> instance.
> 
> From my "journalctl --follow" output, after a "su -" and then
> immediately after closing the resulting shell:
> 
> 	Nov 23 12:03:27 coil su[1330250]: pam_unix(su-l:session): session closed for user root

Nov 22 11:18:27 unicorn systemd[1604310]: Started Sleep command for testing.
Nov 22 11:18:50 unicorn login[1604301]: pam_unix(login:session): session closed>
Nov 22 11:18:50 unicorn systemd[1]: getty@tty2.service: Succeeded.
Nov 22 11:18:50 unicorn systemd[1]: session-7634.scope: Succeeded.
Nov 22 11:18:50 unicorn systemd[1]: getty@tty2.service: Scheduled restart job, >
Nov 22 11:18:50 unicorn systemd-logind[611]: Session 7634 logged out. Waiting f>
Nov 22 11:18:50 unicorn systemd[1]: Stopped Getty on tty2.
Nov 22 11:18:50 unicorn systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty2.
Nov 22 11:18:50 unicorn systemd-logind[611]: Removed session 7634.
Nov 22 11:18:50 unicorn pulseaudio[1604331]: Error opening PCM device front:1: >
Nov 22 11:18:50 unicorn systemd[1604310]: pulseaudio.service: Succeeded.
Nov 22 11:19:00 unicorn systemd[1]: Stopping User Manager for UID 1004...

This basically confirms my guesswork: the "User Manager" isn't stopped
immediately when the last login session is closed.  There's some delay.
Maybe it's the next time the clock reads *:00 or maybe it's 10 seconds.

Nov 22 11:19:00 unicorn systemd[1]: Stopping User Manager for UID 1004...
Nov 22 11:19:00 unicorn systemd[1604310]: Stopped target Main User Target.
Nov 22 11:19:00 unicorn systemd[1604310]: Stopping D-Bus User Message Bus...
Nov 22 11:19:00 unicorn systemd[1604310]: Stopping Multimedia Service...
Nov 22 11:19:00 unicorn systemd[1604310]: Stopping Sleep command for testing...
Nov 22 11:19:00 unicorn systemd[1604310]: dbus.service: Succeeded.
Nov 22 11:19:00 unicorn systemd[1604310]: Stopped D-Bus User Message Bus.
Nov 22 11:19:00 unicorn systemd[1604310]: sleeper.service: Succeeded.
Nov 22 11:19:00 unicorn systemd[1604310]: Stopped Sleep command for testing.
[...]

It seems to do what's desired.  That's the important takeaway.


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