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

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Package: src:elogind; Maintainer for src:elogind is Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>;

Reported by: Nathan Schulte <public@desmas.net>

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:26:02 UTC

Severity: grave

Tags: patch

Found in version elogind/255.17-4

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To: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>
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Cc: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>, 937@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: elogind: SwayWM fails to launch from vTTY: Could not take device: No such file or directory
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[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
On Sunday, January 25th, 2026 at 03:01, Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> wrote:
> It does run as root but I wonder if some privilege has somehow got lost
> in the different daemonization process. This might give us some clues:
> 
> cat /proc/$(cat /run/elogind.pid)/status

The only difference I see here is that SIGINT is not ignored by elogind (with --no-close etc. START_ARGS; vs elogind-daemon).

--
Nathan
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