- Package:
- gnome-session
- Source:
- gnome-session
- Submitter:
- Michael Biebl
- Date:
- 2020-12-21 17:33:05 UTC
- Severity:
- minor
Hi, looking through the journal, I see the following warning messages: Dez 21 14:35:06 debian gnome-session[544]: gnome-session-binary[544]: WARNING: Failed to upload environment to systemd: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name "org.freedesktop.systemd> Dez 21 14:35:06 debian gnome-session-binary[544]: WARNING: Failed to upload environment to systemd: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name "org.freedesktop.systemd1" does not exist Dez 21 14:35:06 debian gnome-session[544]: gnome-session-binary[544]: WARNING: Failed to reset failed state of units: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name "org.freedesktop.systemd1"> Dez 21 14:35:06 debian gnome-session-binary[544]: WARNING: Failed to reset failed state of units: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name "org.freedesktop.systemd1" does not exist Dez 21 14:35:06 debian gnome-session[544]: gnome-session-binary[544]: WARNING: Falling back to non-systemd startup procedure due to error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name "org.> Dez 21 14:35:06 debian gnome-session-binary[544]: WARNING: Falling back to non-systemd startup procedure due to error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Name "org.freedesktop.systemd1> Both systemd and libpam-systemd are installed and active. Afaics, those warnings come from gnome-session that is started by gdm3.
Control: severity -1 minor
If this is from the gdm3 greeter session, then it's likely to be harmless.
The greeter session uses a separate dbus-daemon per greeter instance,
instead of one per uid like dbus-user-session.
This is because if the system is configured in such a way that there
needs to be more than one greeter (multi-seat, and perhaps XDMCP if gdm
still supports that), each greeter needs to behave like its own little
session; and there is currently only one Debian-gdm uid (gdm doesn't ask
systemd to generate users for it dynamically, although maybe it should).
In older versions of gdm, you would have seen a different warning about
failure to activate /bin/false to provide the org.freedesktop.systemd1
name. Newer versions of gdm turn off autostarting in an attempt to
suppress that warning.
smcv