Devuan bug report logs - #937
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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Subject: bug#937: elogind: SwayWM fails to launch from vTTY: Could not take device: No such file or directory
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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:35:16 +0000
To: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>
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On Sunday, January 25th, 2026 at 05:11, Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> 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).

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Nathan

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