Subject: Re: elogind: SwayWM fails to launch from vTTY: Could not take device: No such file or directory

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:35:16 +0000

On Sunday, January 25th, 2026 at 05:11, Andrew Bower <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Well there is one other thing we could try - could it all be about
> timings in the end after all? We could do this combination:
> 
> DAEMON_ARGS=''
> START_ARGS='--verbose --background'
> 
> I.e. just remove '--notify-await' but keep s-s-d doing the
> backgrounding.
> 
> And yet we didn't find anything in your startup sequence that was
> waiting for elogind.

This results in being able to launch SwayWM.

Also, I tried launching sway as root just to see; it makes no difference (in any scenario; the results shared as UID=1000, match).

--
Nathan