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componentscience

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Registered: 2024-01-05

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[SOLVED] Systemd-homed broken?

After doing a full system update with pacman -Syu, only the root user is available for login on the ly login manager menu. With no other choice I logged in as root and ran 'homectl inspect myuser', and the intended user is shown as inactive. The intended user can be activated with the homectl command, and logged in, but still it inherits the root environment. Not sure if the update had anything to do with this. Trying to get Pastebin to work to share the terminal output but haven't been successful. Meanwhile hoping there's a chance anyone else may be familiar with this while I figure out Pastebin.

Regards

Last edited by componentscience (2025-12-09 15:22:35)

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Systemd-homed broken?

Trying to get Pastebin to work to share the terminal output

See Pastebin services. Post a link to your full journal output. Assuming you are root:

# journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Logging into a graphical session as root may have done more harm to your system. You should *never* do that (again). Instead, use your Alt-F4 (or any other number) to open a Virtual Console and log in as root there. Also post your /var/log/pacman.log.

componentscience

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Registered: 2024-01-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Systemd-homed broken?

Yikes. Thanks for the tip and for the response. Logged in as root using Alt-F4 as recommended. Used the 0x0 file sharing site. What an awesome site! Please find the links to my journalctl -b, homectl inspect, and /var/log/pacman log, throughout December. Let me know if anything else is required. Regards.

/var/log/pacman.log
https://0x0.st/KIpD.txt

journalctl -b
https://0x0.st/KI_U.txt

homectl inspect
https://0x0.st/KIMa.txt

Last edited by componentscience (2025-12-09 05:03:21)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Systemd-homed broken?

login on the ly login manager menu

[2025-12-06T16:26:56+0000] [ALPM] upgraded ly (1.1.2-1 -> 1.2.0-2)

Sanity check: disable ly, can you agetty log into your user?

Dec 09 01:29:02 in000 systemd-homed[726]: Successfully loaded private key pair.
Dec 09 01:29:02 in000 systemd-homed[726]: Watching /home.
Dec 09 01:29:02 in000 systemd-homed[726]: User record pomomayu.identity is signed only by us, accepting.
Dec 09 01:29:02 in000 systemd-homed[726]: Added registered home for user pomomayu.

User is known.

   User name: myuser
       State: inactive
 Disposition: regular
 Last Change: Sat 2024-07-13 13:55:56 UTC
 Last Passw.: Sat 2024-07-13 13:54:58 UTC
    Login OK: yes
 Password OK: yes
         UID: 60047
         GID: 60047 (myuser)
 Aux. Groups: project
              myuser
   Directory: / (fallback)
   Blob Dir.: /var/cache/systemd/home/pomomayu
     Storage: luks (strong encryption)
  Image Path: /home/myuser.home
 File System: btrfs
 LUKS Cipher: aes

How much of that "myuser" is redaction and what's genuinely bogus?
What's the home directory supposed to be?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … _mechanism

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componentscience

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Registered: 2024-01-05

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Re: [SOLVED] Systemd-homed broken?

This is definitely a known issue with the ly login manager. Apologies for not checking there first. I disabled it and can successfully login. I will search for a different login manager. This does not appear to be related to systemd-homed. Marking this as solved. Thank you all.

https://codeberg.org/fairyglade/ly/issues/874

On the user I replaced those lines with myuser (very carefully). Honestly not sure why I did that hah probably out of habit. It didn't do much good and doesn't even matter to me hah. The home directory in question is correct.

Last edited by componentscience (2025-12-09 15:29:56)