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process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1 #5247

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soloturn opened this issue Feb 6, 2017 · 54 comments
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process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1 #5247

soloturn opened this issue Feb 6, 2017 · 54 comments

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@soloturn
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soloturn commented Feb 6, 2017

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  • Bug report

systemd version the issue has been seen with

$ pacman -Q systemd
systemd 232-8
linux 4.9.6-1-ARCH

NOTE: Do not submit bug reports about anything but the two most recently released systemd versions upstream!

Used distribution

arch linux

In case of bug report: Unexpected behaviour you saw

Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.gtk.vfs.Daemon'
Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.Daemon'
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.a11y.Bus'
Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.Bus'
Activating service name='org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer'
Activated service 'org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer' failed: Process org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer exited with status 127
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Telepathy.AccountManager'
Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Telepathy.AccountManager'
Activating service name='org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor'
Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor'
Activating service name='org.gtk.vfs.MTPVolumeMonitor'
Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.MTPVolumeMonitor'
Activating service name='org.gtk.vfs.AfcVolumeMonitor'
Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.AfcVolumeMonitor'
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1

In case of bug report: Steps to reproduce the problem

start gnome on command line:
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland nohup dbus-run-session gnome-session

@soloturn soloturn changed the title rocess org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1 process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1 Feb 7, 2017
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this suggests you aren't actually running dbus from the systemd --user instance...

@poettering poettering added the needs-reporter-feedback ❓ There's an unanswered question, the reporter needs to answer label Feb 8, 2017
@CounterfeitLlama
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I am having the exact same issue as above. Has anyone found a solution to this yet?

@soloturn
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lennart, what do you mean with your comment, resp what do you want me to do? i am following what florian müllner suggested here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774774

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@soloturn well, is "systemctl --user dbus.service" showing that the user dbus is running as user service off systemd --user?

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soloturn commented Feb 26, 2017

to add, i was starting gnome wayland for quite a while like this, and there was no systemd error. it showed up recently - i.e. in the last weeks.

$ systemctl --user dbus.service
Unknown operation dbus.service.

$ systemctl --user | grep loaded
...
51 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.

$ cat /etc/pam.d/system-login | grep systemd
-session optional pam_systemd.so

i saw:
https://www.archlinux.org/news/d-bus-now-launches-user-buses/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/D-Bus

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$ systemctl --user dbus.service

Sorry, I meant "systemctl --user status dbus.service"...

@soloturn
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soloturn commented Mar 19, 2017

it says, entered into a gnome terminal:
$ systemctl --user status dbus.service
● dbus.service - D-Bus User Message Bus
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2017-03-19 05:58:41 CET; 4h 49min ago
Docs: man:dbus-daemon(1)
Main PID: 1773 (dbus-daemon)
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/dbus.service
└─1773 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation

would you be able to describe how it is supposed to be, or where this can go wrong? i boot, i log in on text tty, then start gnome as my user with "XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session".

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@soloturn

I just had the same symptoms with Gnome not starting on Arch and the problem was resolved by installing 'nvidia' package instead of 'nvidia-340xx-utils'.

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soloturn commented Apr 1, 2017

nbdsp, do you start it on a command line or you have gdm running?

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raindev commented Apr 11, 2017

I have exactly the same symptoms when starting GNOME with XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session. Shell starts successfully anyway and seems to be running without issues.

@soloturn
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this one does not seem related but i am putting it here in case there is a relation i cannot see. when i do not log in on the command line but put the command into bash_profile, starting falls into an endless loop, "cannot initialise inotify" and then "dbus-run-session ignoring unknown child process ...". i opened a bug here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780801

for the inotify i did something in the lines of:
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/40-max-user-watches.conf && sudo sysctl --system

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I met both issues as well.

I suspect that the endless loop issue is caused by the dbus-run-session process somehow sourcing .bash_profile (.zprofile in my case) again, so each message indicates a level of call stack. I avoided this issue by

if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]] && [[ -z $XDG_SESSION_TYPE ]]
then XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland exec dbus-run-session gnome-session
fi

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eliriand commented Apr 26, 2017

I can reproduce this bug too with Arch using systemd 232 and dbus 1.10.18. After running XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session

Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.gtk.vfs.Daemon'
Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.Daemon'
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1'
Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1

Dbus user service is running fine:

   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2017-04-25 17:10:50 MSK; 18h ago
     Docs: man:dbus-daemon(1)
 Main PID: 1029 (dbus-daemon)
   CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/dbus.service
           └─1029 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation```

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eomanis commented Apr 28, 2017

I am hit by this too since Arch updated to GNOME 3.24 a few days ago.

GDM appears to be unable to start a Wayland-based GNOME session and falls back to Xorg, that's why I started investigating.
When I run XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session from one of the system terminals, I get the same result as eliriand. The dbus user service is up and running.

I only got rid of the GNOME Xorg session a few weeks ago. Now my desktop is again insecure, and the activities overview lags again, it owns :-/ It was so smooth when running in Wayland mode

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FranklinYu commented Apr 29, 2017

@eomanis I believe that's a situation worse than some of us here. In my case, I saw those messages, but GNOME session works fine. Same for @raindev. In you case GNOME session can't even start under Wayland, right (neither from GDM nor from terminal)?

And I'm wondering why this issue is still labeled with "needs-reporter-feedback" although @soloturn has already replied a month ago. Maybe there are way too many issues in the queue (over 600 now).

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@FranklinYu is there a temporary solution or workaround for this? I cannot now start my wayland Gnome DE and it's the only DE on my Arch installation.

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keszybz commented May 19, 2017

This seems to be an issue with the way the user session is started on arch, i.e. not something that we can solve here. Please move this discussion to the arch bugtracker. (Also, if somebody could later paste a link, for the sake of other people encountering this issue, that'd be appreciated.)

@keszybz keszybz closed this as completed May 19, 2017
@keszybz keszybz added not-our-bug and removed needs-reporter-feedback ❓ There's an unanswered question, the reporter needs to answer labels May 19, 2017
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FranklinYu commented May 19, 2017

@BinaryHexer It shouldn't stop GNOME from being started. Are you trying to start GNOME from GDM or from terminal? Or you tried both?

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@FranklinYu terminal.

This is the script I am using

#!/bin/bash

export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland
if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]] && [[ -z $XDG_SESSION_TYPE ]]
  then XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland exec dbus-run-session gnome-session
fi

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@BinaryHexer I assume that the script is neither .profile nor .xsession nor any dot file? Maybe it's just a script which you run with ./start-gnome?

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@FranklinYu yes, correct assumption. It has worked in the past without any problems, I don't know what happened.

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@BinaryHexer Then how about simply

XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session

in log-in shell session? (Note the absence of exec.)

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raindev commented May 19, 2017

@FranklinYu, sorry I've missed your previous mention.

In you case GNOME session can't even start under Wayland, right (neither from GDM nor from terminal)?

Actually, that's not the case: I still can successfully Stuart GNOME session both from tty and using GDM.

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@raindev Yes, I knew about that; I was actually referring to @eomanis's case. I think the behavior on your system is the same as mine, while @eomanis unfortunately met some more issue.

Sorry for causing misunderstanding. (Non-native speaker here.)

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@FranklinYu thanks for helping me, but

XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland dbus-run-session gnome-session

has the same result as before.

Here is result of debug

I can't figure out how to fix this.

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dpc commented Aug 28, 2017

On Archlinux, I've enabled [testing], upgraded everything, and the problem went away.

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ghost commented Apr 27, 2018

This is not just an arch problem. Im having the same issue on my raspberry pi too now.

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udovdh commented Apr 27, 2018

$ systemctl --user start vino
Failed to start vino.service: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
See user logs and 'systemctl --user status vino.service' for details.

System was taken to runlevel 3 and then to 5.
This impiies that this does not cleanly kill all GUI-related processes and/or does not perfectly start all GUI-related processes.

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@poettering the error message meanwhile slightly changed, this is the nohop file after starting gnome on the command line and then immeditaely press "logout".

$ XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland nohup dbus-run-session gnome-session 
$ cat nohup.out
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.1' (uid=1000 pid=17776 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.3' (uid=1000 pid=17776 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.5' (uid=1000 pid=17776 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.7' (uid=1000 pid=17776 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.8' (uid=1000 pid=17776 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.gtk.vfs.Daemon' requested by ':1.9' (uid=1000 pid=17820 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.Daemon'
fusermount: failed to access mountpoint /run/user/1000/gvfs: Permission denied
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.8' (uid=1000 pid=17776 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.8' (uid=1000 pid=17776 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.a11y.Bus' requested by ':1.11' (uid=1000 pid=17820 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.Bus'
dbus-daemon[17853]: Activating service name='org.a11y.atspi.Registry' requested by ':1.0' (uid=1000 pid=17820 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ")
dbus-daemon[17853]: Successfully activated service 'org.a11y.atspi.Registry'
SpiRegistry daemon is running with well-known name - org.a11y.atspi.Registry
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer' requested by ':1.9' (uid=1000 pid=17820 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ")
/usr/lib/gnome-shell-calendar-server: error while loading shared libraries: libecal-1.2.so.19: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activated service 'org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer' failed: Process org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer exited with status 127
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='ca.desrt.dconf' requested by ':1.9' (uid=1000 pid=17820 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Successfully activated service 'ca.desrt.dconf'
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor' requested by ':1.9' (uid=1000 pid=17820 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor'
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.gtk.vfs.MTPVolumeMonitor' requested by ':1.9' (uid=1000 pid=17820 comm="/usr/bin/gnome-shell ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Successfully activated service 'org.gtk.vfs.MTPVolumeMonitor'
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Tracker1' requested by ':1.35' (uid=1000 pid=17989 comm="gdbus call -e -d org.freedesktop.DBus -o /org/free")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Tracker1'
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.gnome.Terminal' requested by ':1.36' (uid=1000 pid=17987 comm="gnome-terminal ")
Display does not support owner-change; copy/paste will be broken!
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Terminal'
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.8' (uid=1000 pid=17776 comm="/usr/lib/gnome-session-binary ")
dbus-daemon[17775]: [session uid=1000 pid=17775] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
A connection to the bus can't be made
$ systemctl --user status dbus.service
● dbus.service - D-Bus User Message Bus
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-05-21 10:39:42 CEST; 8h ago
     Docs: man:dbus-daemon(1)
 Main PID: 1484 (dbus-daemon)
   CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/dbus.service
           ├─ 1484 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
           ├─ 2254 /usr/lib/dconf-service
           └─10765 /usr/bin/nautilus --gapplication-service

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I'm also encountering this issue on Nixos... Anyone else?

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https://serverfault.com/a/887298/135542

export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u) seems to fix it...

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udovdh commented Mar 10, 2019

Not here. some dbus process is not properly started in the init 3/init 5 circus.
Same as gnome-shell not being fully killed when doing init 3.

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Also not working for me on Manjaro

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bphd commented Apr 7, 2020

Not working on Arch today (Freshly installed gnome, normal Arch repo.)

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Issue on Debian buster.

systemd-run --pty --same-dir --wait --collect --service-type=exec --pipe --user --quiet --nice=19 --property=MemoryAccounting=yes --property=MemoryHigh=300M --property=MemoryMax=500M --property=CPUAccounting=yes --property=CPUQuota=5% --property=CPUWeight=1 --property=CPUShares=2 --property=TasksAccounting=yes --property=TasksMax=200 --property=IOAccounting=yes --property=IOWeight=1 '--property=IOReadIOPSMax=/dev/disk/ 1K' -- mousepad

Failed to start transient service unit: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1

(related: #16180)

Resolved by installing package dbus-user-session.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install dbus-user-session

Didn't research security impact yet.

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machitgarha commented Jan 18, 2021

I don't really know either where to report it, or if it is a bug or not. However, it seems the problem is with the DBus service file, located both in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service and /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service. On my personal system, the file contains the following contents:

# Some comments here

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.freedesktop.systemd1
Exec=/bin/false
User=root

As a result, when DBus tries to activate it, /bin/false gets executed, and obviously, the exit code will be 1. I wonder why there is such a service at all. Perhaps it is an unimplemented stuff, or maybe it is a bug. Most likely the problems are caused by this.

Anyone can tell us more information on this?

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Found the file in the repository with a simple search: src/core/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service

Maybe this issue should be reopened?

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Xavron commented Jan 19, 2021

Found the file in the repository with a simple search: src/core/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service

Maybe this issue should be reopened?

I'm not sure if this should be an issue or not as well. However, I only have a problem when I go to boot older installed kernels even if it was just working and I install a new kernel. This error shows up and gnome fails to start. I feel like people may not be on the right track here.

Despite this, I can get it to boot into gnome desktop if I use an empty xorg.conf but that breaks the latest kernel so I haven't been able to win but only just looking here and there into it. There's a rather big disconnect there as to the actual thing that's happening compared to this log entry we all see.

Probably doesn't clear anything up for you but might as well with more questions possibly. Errors in logs aren't necessarily anything at all. I can put "errors" in logs all day long and they are just for development feedback or something is wrong and not necessarily what we think it might be.

It could be best to look at it from another angle.

Oh, also if I switch to open source driver from removing the block on kernel command line during boot, that's another "fix" for my situation.

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@Xavron

Thanks for your reply. Maybe I didn't get you well, however, personally I think errors and even warnings should not be ignored. Yes, the issue may gone away by some magic tricks, but that doesn't necessarily mean that is the reason. We may find correct issues from unrelated ones as well.

The current issue might be an unrelated one, so I would open a new one on this after ensuring it doesn't already exist.

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machitgarha commented Jan 19, 2021

As the commit b895fa0 tells (reverting 07125d2), the file is nothing but a stub service, and must be there for things like dbus-broker to work properly. So, yes, @Xavron, you were right.

Also see #13396 and #11246.

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Why on earth are we letting systemd run /bin/false disguised as something that looks essential and produce an unintelligible error on everyone's system?

This has been a source of confusion for my particular issue for a while now, since it's one of only 2 errors that I see and it seemed to be the only one that could explain anything. Now that I see that it doesn't explain anything because it's supposedly some fake error for no reason, my particular issue is even more confusing.

So since 2019, this .service file tries to launch and is /bin/false and always fails? That's accepted in this project? It seems insane to me.

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@AlexFolland

Well, the problem is more complicated than that. What starts a service in a system at boot time? Obviously Systemd. What if the service itself is Systemd (i.e. org.freedesktop.systemd1)? Is it possible for Systemd to start itself at boot time? Maybe, but that's not easy.

As far as I know, the sole purpose of the org.freedesktop.systemd1 service file is to make interactions with Systemd possible. So, the /bin/false thing is just a stub executable, because Systemd as a service could not be started.

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Obviously interactions with systemd are not possible this way. Whatever's trying to interact with it and getting /bin/false needs to be fixed, and it can't be fixed if the error is so cryptic. I feel lucky that I stumbled upon this github issue ticket and you had posted that the exec line just points to /bin/false. Otherwise, I may never have known why this error appeared. Why would anything intentionally try to launch something that just leads to /bin/false anyway? It still seems completely insane. Why not instead just never try to launch this fake org.freedesktop.systemd1 which just leads to /bin/false, and remove it from the project so nothing tries to do it and anything that tries to do it sees that such a thing doesn't exist?

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I read the introduction and did a page-search for /bin/false. What am I supposed to see here that addresses what I said?

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machitgarha commented Nov 16, 2021

Obviously interactions with systemd are not possible this way.

@AlexFolland, this is what you said. org.freedesktop.systemd1 is an interface to interact with Systemd via DBus, and to my knowledge, it is the only purpose of this service file. The /bin/false thing is just a stub thing, it could be /dev/null, or whatever (falsy thing). The Exec property is just to make the service file a valid one, and have nothing to do with starting or stopping Systemd, or DBus interactions with it.

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noahtallen commented Dec 9, 2021

I ran into this issue. I was trying to solve the following error which occurs when launching Flatpaks (My main goal has been getting Sway and Flatpak working smoothly together).

Some flatpaks have this error after startup:

$ flatpak run md.obsidian.Obsidian
[3 preload-host-spawn-strategy] Running: /app/bin/zypak-helper child - /app/obsidian --type=zygote
[3 preload-host-spawn-strategy] Failed to call Spawn: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: Could not find requesting pid

After logout, others have this error

$ flatpak run com.visualstudio.code
[2 zypak-helper] Failed to connect to session bus: [org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NotSupported] Using X11 for dbus-daemon autolaunch was disabled at compile time, set your DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS instead
[2 zypak-helper] src/helper/main.cc:40(DetermineZygoteStrategy): Assertion failed: bus

Following the suggestions in another thread, I added this to my profile to try to give DBUS a
bit of a head start:

if [ -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ] ; then
	# Sets the session bus address and another thing:
	export $(dbus-launch)
	export NSS_USE_SHARED_DB=ENABLED
fi

While that solved the issue of flatpaks not opening, it causes this error.

$ systemctl --user status pipewire
Failed to get properties: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1

Which obviously impacts a lot of things :)

It seems I can only have one of the two things working correctly, until I figure out a solution!

Thought I'd post to get more mentions of the issue in the search index. Will update if I find anything.

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I am affected by this ubuntu problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1951491 where something is going wrong with systemd when starting a remote session via in my case nomachine, but other users report problems with vcn and x2go. All these start a session. Snaps don't start because they can't interact as expected with the user dbus, it seems.
My logs have this, in the case of trying to start the firefox snap.

in particular:

Jun 15 13:09:30 ubuntu dbus-daemon[7531]: [session uid=1000 pid=7528] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
stood out to me.
I don't understand this ticket; is this ticket relevant to the problem?


tim@ubuntu /usr/share/dbus-1/services $ systemd --version
systemd 249 (249.11-0ubuntu3.1)

Jun 15 13:09:30 ubuntu dbus-daemon[7531]: [session uid=1000 pid=7528] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.60' (uid=1000 pid=8624 comm="/snap/bin/firefox " label="unconfined")
Jun 15 13:09:30 ubuntu dbus-daemon[7531]: [session uid=1000 pid=7528] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
Jun 15 13:09:30 ubuntu audit[8624]: AVC apparmor="DENIED" operation="capable" profile="/snap/core/13308/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" pid=8624 comm="snap-confine" capability=12 capname="net_admin"
Jun 15 13:09:30 ubuntu audit[8624]: AVC apparmor="DENIED" operation="capable" profile="/snap/core/13308/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" pid=8624 comm="snap-confine" capability=38 capname="perfmon"
Jun 15 13:09:30 ubuntu kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1655262570.773:81): apparmor="DENIED" operation="capable" profile="/snap/core/13308/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" pid=8624 comm="snap-confine" capability=12 capname="net_admin"
Jun 15 13:09:30 ubuntu kernel: audit: type=1400 audit(1655262570.773:82): apparmor="DENIED" operation="capable" profile="/snap/core/13308/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" pid=8624 comm="snap-confine" capability=38 capname="perfmon"

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I'm seeing something similar as @noahtallen when I open vscode.

Jun 19 12:47:58 La-Laptop-wsl dbus-daemon[55478]: [session uid=1000 pid=55476] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' requested by ':1.32' (uid=1000 pid=56281 comm="code -r . ")

Not sure what the fix is.

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linas commented Sep 12, 2023

In my case, either systemctl --user or systemctl --user status results in the dreaded

Failed to list units: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1

I can fix this with

export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)

I have no clue why this env var is needed, why it was not set, or why it doesn't use the "obvious" default of the current login.

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tonynajjar commented Jan 24, 2024

In my case, either systemctl --user or systemctl --user status results in the dreaded

Failed to list units: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1

I can fix this with

export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)

I have no clue why this env var is needed, why it was not set, or why it doesn't use the "obvious" default of the current login.

for me even this doesn't fix this anymore....

tony@tony-xmg-22:~$ echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
/run/user/1000
tony@tony-xmg-22:~$ systemctl --user
Failed to list units: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1

UPDATE: This was my issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/2017496

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