[SOLVED] After update, colord won't start anymore

MilanKnizek · 2014-05-06 16:43:09

Hi all,

after todays update, colord.service, which is started via dBus somehow, fails to start. The system tries several times and times eventually out. As a result, it takes about 3 minutes to get from KDM to KDE session.

May  6 18:33:53 athlon dbus[673]: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.ColorManager': timed out
May  6 18:33:53 athlon dbus[673]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.ColorManager' unit='colord.service'
May  6 18:33:53 athlon systemd[1]: Starting Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles...
May  6 18:33:53 athlon systemd[7069]: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/lib/colord/colord: No such process
May  6 18:33:53 athlon systemd[1]: colord.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
May  6 18:33:53 athlon systemd[1]: Failed to start Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles.
May  6 18:33:53 athlon systemd[1]: Unit colord.service entered failed state.

Running /usr/lib/colord/colord --verbose from Konsole under logged in user spits some status messages and exists with 0 return code.
Running the same as privileged user root starts the daemon and things work as expected (tested via aur/colord-kde plugin to the systemsettings).

Any idea if this could be Arch / systemd / dBus related and how to resolve the issue?

Last edited by MilanKnizek (2014-05-06 18:50:38)

loqs · 2014-05-06 18:06:50

May  6 18:33:53 athlon systemd[7069]: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/lib/colord/colord: No such process

Reads as though the colord user is missing. Could you check for it in /etc/passwd? (It should also have an entry for its group in /etc/group )
If the entry is missing reinstalling the package should add it.

MilanKnizek · 2014-05-06 18:50:19

A good point. I had another user using the UID 124 (manully added some time in the past). The error msg could have been more self-explanatory, though
Thanks anyway.

Arch Linux

#1 2014-05-06 16:43:09

[SOLVED] After update, colord won't start anymore

#2 2014-05-06 18:06:50

Re: [SOLVED] After update, colord won't start anymore

#3 2014-05-06 18:50:19

Re: [SOLVED] After update, colord won't start anymore

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