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zreeon

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Registered: 2015-10-17

Posts: 28

Installing dunst breaks login session

After installing dunst 1.2.0 and rebooting, I get the following messages out of journalctl after logging in:

systemd[832]: Failed to start Dunst notification daemon.
login[551]: pam_systemd(login:session): Failed to create session: Connection timed out

I think what is happening is that systemd is starting graphical-session.target (which dunst.service is PartOf) before X is started. I start X by calling startx in my ~/.bash_profile.

What do I need to modify in order to make dunst.service not crash the login session? For now, I've masked the service and start it manually after X starts.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Installing dunst breaks login session

I doubt that merely installing dunst lead to this. What else did you do (probably autostart it in some way?) and notably: *how*?

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zreeon

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Registered: 2015-10-17

Posts: 28

Re: Installing dunst breaks login session

Thanks, I figured it out.

Deep in my config files, I had a call to notify-send that was called before X started. Moving this to after X starts solved this issue.