0009603: deltoid user@65534.service failing

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0009603	Taler	deployment and operations	public	2025-03-10 14:53	2025-04-07 14:28

Reporter	dvn	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	confirmed	Resolution	open

Summary	0009603: deltoid user@65534.service failing
Description	Mar 10 06:25:01 deltoid systemd[1]: Starting user@65534.service - User Manager for UID 65534... Mar 10 06:25:01 deltoid (systemd)[1535001]: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session opened for user nobody(uid=65534) by (uid=0) Mar 10 06:25:01 deltoid (systemd)[1535001]: pam_systemd(systemd-user:session): Failed to create session: Invalid session class manager-early Mar 10 06:25:01 deltoid systemd[1535001]: Trying to run as user instance, but $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set. Mar 10 06:25:01 deltoid systemd[1]: user@65534.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Mar 10 06:25:01 deltoid (sd-pam)[1535002]: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session closed for user nobody Mar 10 06:25:01 deltoid systemd[1]: user@65534.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Mar 10 06:25:01 deltoid systemd[1]: Failed to start user@65534.service - User Manager for UID 65534.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2025-03-10 14:53	dvn	New Issue
2025-03-10 14:53	dvn	Status	new => assigned
2025-03-10 14:53	dvn	Assigned To	=> dvn
2025-03-26 19:42	dvn	Note Added: 0024312
2025-04-07 14:28	Christian Grothoff	Assigned To	dvn =>
2025-04-07 14:28	Christian Grothoff	Status	assigned => confirmed

dvn 2025-03-26 19:42 developer ~0024312	This is for a user called "sync" which is a system user that Debian creates. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/328110/why-does-debian-set-the-login-shell-of-user-sync-to-bin-sync Not sure why the systemd unit is attempting to run and failing... Having trouble finding info about this.