Devuan bug report logs - #878
loginctl[2676]: Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

Package: runit-services; Maintainer for runit-services is (unknown); Source for runit-services is src:runit-services.

Reported by: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>

Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 19:10:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian, moreinfo, unreproducible

Fixed in version runit-servics/0.9.0

Done: Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org>

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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:17:20 +0000
From: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 07:19:10PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 09:22:13AM +0000, Andrew Bower wrote:
> > > > I see this reported through syslog at the error level:
> > > > 
> > > >   loginctl[2676]: Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
> > > 
> > > Is this every time or only the first time?
> > 
> > Once on startup. I've not noticed any functional degradation.
> 
> So where is that loginctl call coming from? It looks like it happens *before*
> the system dbus is started.

I suspect it's the elogind check script (/etc/sv/elogind/check). Let's
bring in Lorenzo.

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Devuan bug report logs - #878 loginctl[2676]: Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

Devuan bug report logs - #878
loginctl[2676]: Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory