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EndUserOnly

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[SOLVED] Unable to Contact Settings Server

Not sure if it was an update or not, but suddenly I was unable to establish a desktop session. The initial message above is followed by : "Failed to connect to socket /run/user/1000/bus; no such file or directory"

At the time of the error the only thing in directory /run/user/1000 is gnupg.

After restoring sda1 from backup and successfully getting my desktop back - /run/user/1000, again contains the single file gnupg.

Secondary to this initial error (click OK) produces the secondary error "Unable to load failsafe session"

My only observation is that before starting my desktop XFCE4 - /run/user/1000 was empty. So logically, while encountering the error I should have tried removing gnupg - which I will if the situation happens again after I bring sda1 (programs) current.

By the way if have seen the post from 2016 with a similar error, but it no longer seems valid.

Any thoughts?

Last edited by EndUserOnly (2019-01-14 13:19:39)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to Contact Settings Server

How are you starting xfce?

shulamy

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to Contact Settings Server

i had the same error with mate and lightdm.

i had to use startx for a while and after few updates the problem has gone.

ezik

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to Contact Settings Server

How are you starting xfce?

I use startx from cli no logon manager. Startxfce4 is in xinitrc.

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to Contact Settings Server

If that's "only" startxfce4 that is insufficient and explains your issue (as for why this only surfaced negatively now, there where some changes in how this is handled in systemd, however it has "always" (at least since systemd also handles the login session) been incorrect to just have startxfce4 in there and there are a few potential issues and gotchas), read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xinitrc and especially the note in the second blue box.

Last edited by V1del (2019-01-09 16:08:13)

EndUserOnly

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to Contact Settings Server

Thanks, my xinitrc file was incorrect. However, same problem. After updating xinitrc logout/login worked fine. However during shutdown I got this; “A stop job is running for User Manager for UID 1000”; accompanied by the timer which counts up to a forced shutdown. The log that printed on the screen during forced shutdown said all jobs ended successfully - but that hung as well. Had to use the power button to shutdown. There is something in the updates impacting my system.

Reloading backup.... not resolved.

loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to Contact Settings Server

What did the system update contain?  (/var/log/pacman.log)  Did the backup revert the system update?

EndUserOnly

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to Contact Settings Server

The backup downgraded all applications to Dec 27th. I will have to dig into pacman updates to try to determine which one impacted me, but I am going to wait about a week or two. I am downgraded now so the pacman.log will be of no use. Clearly this is something specific to my build. Fortunately, having /home, and root on different partitions means worse case scenario I can rebuild one and reload the other. I find that in these cases, time can heal things. If somebody stepped on some code they typically catch and correct it. "Archer for life!".

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to Contact Settings Server

Doesn't necessarily have to be specific to your build, there are quite a few regressions reported with systemd 240 and I wouldn't be surprised if this was yet another side effect from that update.

EndUserOnly

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to Contact Settings Server

Good call, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I set - systemd; systemd-sysvcompat; libsystemd to --ignore during pacman upgrade and rebooted successfully. I guess I will wait until I see systemd-240.0-3 upgraded.

EndUserOnly

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to Contact Settings Server

Systemd is fixed.... solved.