Devuan bug report logs - #937
elogind: SwayWM fails to launch from vTTY: Could not take device: No such file or directory

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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Subject: Re: elogind: SwayWM fails to launch from vTTY: Could not take device: No such file or directory
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I've built elogind packages with log-trace: true and debug-extra: ['elogind'], and it provides more detail, e.g.:

> elogind[13734]: Got message type=method_call sender=:1.30 destination=org.freedesktop.login1 path=/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_38 interface=org.freedesktop.login1.Session member=TakeDevice  cookie=10 reply_cookie=0 signature=uu error-name=n/a error-message=n/a
> elogind[13734]: Failed to send notify message to '/run/.s-s-d-notify.49UVq6/notify': No such file or directory
> elogind[13734]: Sent message type=signal sender=n/a destination=:1.30 path=/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_38 interface=org.freedesktop.login1.Session member=PauseDevice cookie=76 reply_cookie=0 signature=uus error-name=n/a error-message=n/a
> elogind[13734]: Sent message type=error sender=n/a destination=:1.30 path=n/a interface=n/a member=n/a cookie=77 reply_cookie=10 signature=s error-name=org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound error-message=No such file or directory
> elogind[13734]: Failed to process message type=method_call sender=:1.30 destination=org.freedesktop.login1 path=/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_38 interface=org.freedesktop.login1.Session member=TakeDevice cookie=10 reply_cookie=0 signature=uu error-name=n/a error-message=n/a: No such file or directory

--
Nathan

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Devuan bug report logs - #937 elogind: SwayWM fails to launch from vTTY: Could not take device: No such file or directory

Devuan bug report logs - #937
elogind: SwayWM fails to launch from vTTY: Could not take device: No such file or directory