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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Subject: bug#937: elogind: SwayWM fails to launch from vTTY: Could not take device: No such file or directory
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To: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>
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On Sunday, January 25th, 2026 at 12:51, Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> wrote:
> Just to confirm this with you - when you added '--verbose' to
> START_ARGS, did the output confirm to you:
> 
> -> Notification => ready for service.
> 
> 
> ? If you only relied on reboot then 'service elogind start' should show
> this.

This is correct; with --verbose in START_ARGS, I do see this "ready for service" message upon `service elogind restart`.

Also, man sd_notify has interesting notes about $NOTIFY_SOCKET w/re: return values of calls re: status messages and supporting the various schemes of service managers, but I don't have enough knowledge to know if it's pertinent.

I'm happy to test any branch or patch made available, but drumming one up myself is unlikely right now.

Thanks!

--
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