Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-19 Thread Joe
On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 00:19:48 +0200 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Am 16.08.2014 23:54, schrieb Joe: Aug 16 00:02:03 jresid systemd[2913]: systemd-exit.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=200/CHDIR Aug 16 00:02:03 jresid systemd[2913]: Failed to start Exit the

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 19.08.2014 23:11, schrieb Joe: Again, this seems to confirm that nobody is invoked to do a particular job and then not logged out for some reason. This seems to be the area, when PID 2593 appears. As all entries show the same time, I assume logs are interleaved and this may not be the

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 20.08.2014 03:05, schrieb Michael Biebl: /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest: su -s /bin/sh -c /usr/sbin/popularity-contest nobody here. You might check the dates of the /var/log/popularity-contest* files, if they match with the session starts you get in your journal. Looking at the

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:44:31 +0200 david davce...@keyworld.net wrote: I have been bothered by this too. KUser shows this user as nobody whose home directory is /nonexistent and whose login shell is /usr/sbin/nologin. The account on one machine is set as disabled but both my current

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread Joe
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:00:08 +0400 Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:44:31 +0200 david davce...@keyworld.net wrote: I have been bothered by this too. KUser shows this user as nobody whose home directory is /nonexistent and whose login shell is

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread Reco
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 08:17:50 +0100 Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: I have /usr/sbin/nologin also. This is up-to-date sid with systemd, which may not have the same defaults as previous distributions. Curious. And what shell do they set now for users with uid 100? I've checked more-or-less

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 16.08.2014 11:36, schrieb Reco: On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 08:17:50 +0100 Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: I have /usr/sbin/nologin also. This is up-to-date sid with systemd, which may not have the same defaults as previous distributions. Curious. And what shell do they set now for users with

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread Reco
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:51:28 +0200 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: base-passwd (3.5.30) unstable; urgency=medium [ Colin Watson ] .. * Change the shell of all global static users other than root (which retains /bin/sh) and sync (as /bin/sync is rather harmless) to

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Am 16.08.2014 11:36, schrieb Reco: On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 08:17:50 +0100 Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: I have /usr/sbin/nologin also. This is up-to-date sid with systemd, which may not have the same defaults as previous

Re: Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread david
I.m starting to get the picture but we have moved away from what I think was the prime motive for this trhead to be started. User 65534 is causing a frustrating 90 - 120 second delay during shutdown. That's 6 to 9 hrs a year! Can this delay be eliminated? After all it did not used to happen

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 08:17:50 +0100 Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: I have /usr/sbin/nologin also. This is up-to-date sid with systemd, which may not have the same defaults as previous distributions. Curious. And what shell do

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread John Hasler
david writes: User 65534 is causing a frustrating 90 - 120 second delay during shutdown. Some process that happens to be running as nobody is failing to exit when instructed to do so. Systemd is waiting patiently for 90 seconds before sending it a kill -9. You need to either find that process

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread AW
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:59:24 +0200 david davce...@keyworld.net wrote: Can this delay be eliminated? After all it did not used to happen before systemd was implemented. OP is running Sid. So there are problems with stability in the unstable version of Debian... and? ... Oh well. ps -u

Re: Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 7:59 PM, david davce...@keyworld.net wrote: I.m starting to get the picture but we have moved away from what I think was the prime motive for this trhead to be started. User 65534 is causing a frustrating 90 - 120 second delay during shutdown. That's 6 to 9 hrs a year!

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread Joe
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:39:03 +0100 Joe j...@jretrading.com wrote: This is a can of worms, and I hereby abandon it. OK, I lied. I was bored... A little further on... journald *has* been keeping persistent journals, but with different user permissions, now root:systemd-journal 640.

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 16.08.2014 23:54, schrieb Joe: Aug 16 00:02:03 jresid systemd[2913]: systemd-exit.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=200/CHDIR Aug 16 00:02:03 jresid systemd[2913]: Failed to start Exit the Session. Apparently that service failed with exit code 200 / CHDIR.

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-15 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 15.08.2014 20:34, schrieb Joe: Apart from 'nobody', according to /etc/passwd. He seems to login most sessions, and when he does, he causes the dreaded two-minute shutdown. Here's what I can find in journalctl: sudo journalctl | grep user-65534 Aug 06 07:56:20 jresid systemd[1]:

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-15 Thread Joe
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 21:24:38 +0200 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Am 15.08.2014 20:34, schrieb Joe: Apart from 'nobody', according to /etc/passwd. He seems to login most sessions, and when he does, he causes the dreaded two-minute shutdown. Here's what I can find in

Re: Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-15 Thread david
I have been bothered by this too. KUser shows this user as nobody whose home directory is /nonexistent and whose login shell is /usr/sbin/nologin. The account on one machine is set as disabled but both my current machines (#3 failed to turn on today :-( ) suffer the shut down delay - most

Re: Anybody know who user-65534 is?

2014-08-15 Thread John Hasler
The purpose of the nobody account is to allow daemons to run with minimum privileges. Getting rid of it would be a bad idea. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact