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stryder

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Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 500

failed to start login service

I have a simple system set up in virtualbox, mostly to browse and torrent. Rarely have major problems. Recently I realized that cron was not working when flexget was not activated as expected. A check of journalctl threw up repeated instances of the following:

Jun 04 15:41:11 arch32VB systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service operation timed out. Terminating.
Jun 04 15:41:11 arch32VB systemd[1]: Failed to start Login Service.
Jun 04 15:41:11 arch32VB systemd[1]: Unit systemd-logind.service entered failed state.
Jun 04 15:41:11 arch32VB systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jun 04 15:41:11 arch32VB systemd[1]: Stopping Login Service...
Jun 04 15:41:11 arch32VB systemd[1]: Starting Login Service...
Jun 04 15:41:11 arch32VB systemd-logind[665]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event3 (Power Button)
Jun 04 15:41:11 arch32VB systemd-logind[665]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event4 (Sleep Button)
Jun 04 15:41:11 arch32VB systemd-logind[665]: New seat seat0.
Jun 04 15:41:11 arch32VB systemd-logind[665]: New session 1 of user calvin.
Jun 04 15:42:41 arch32VB systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service operation timed out. Terminating.
Jun 04 15:42:41 arch32VB systemd[1]: Failed to start Login Service.
Jun 04 15:42:41 arch32VB systemd[1]: Unit systemd-logind.service entered failed state.
Jun 04 15:42:41 arch32VB systemd[1]: systemd-logind.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jun 04 15:42:41 arch32VB systemd[1]: Stopping Login Service...
Jun 04 15:42:41 arch32VB systemd[1]: Starting Login Service...
Jun 04 15:42:41 arch32VB systemd-logind[693]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event3 (Power Button)
Jun 04 15:42:41 arch32VB systemd-logind[693]: Watching system buttons on /dev/input/event4 (Sleep Button)
Jun 04 15:42:41 arch32VB systemd-logind[693]: New seat seat0.
Jun 04 15:42:41 arch32VB systemd-logind[693]: New session 1 of user calvin.

I use autologin to console (and then to X via bash_profile) and there is no glitch except that I find that getting to desktop takes a little longer these days. Thought it is due to psd. I have no idea when this happened as things have been OK.

Any advice? I suspect that cron's failure is due to this issue though honestly I have no basis to think so. Systemctl shows cronie.service loaded and running. System is up to date.

stryder

Member

Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 500

Re: failed to start login service

With all the changes over the past year, I have been wanting to set up a fresh installation to remove any old issues that might not have been properly dealt with over time. This current issue, and the fact that the move to consolidate everything to /usr/bin has happened, tilted the balance.

New installation, login is OK, no repeated messages from systemd-logind, cronie is working.

Why the problems, I have no idea. But the new installation is working well.

leha2000

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Registered: 2013-10-18

Posts: 4

Re: failed to start login service

Before systemd this problem was not exist
At present old systems cannot be updated similar Windows, and must be reinstalling???

This is very sad:(

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,260

Re: failed to start login service

Closing this thread.
It never gained any traction.  It is an old thread.  The assertion in the previous thread is incorrect.  And, I believe, the OP dealt with it with a re-install.  Not much point in continuing.

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