On Sa, 16.08.25 22:47, Demi Marie Obenour (demioben...@gmail.com) wrote: > On a system where /etc is read-only, systemd-logind fails to start. > I have tried making / a writable overlayfs without any success so > far. The code is at https://github.com/DemiMarie/spectrum (branch > b4/systemd) and the problem can be reproduced by running > nix-shell --pure --run 'make run' in host/rootfs. Obviously, do > this in a VM to not affect your host system :).
I frequently run logind with a read-only /etc/, so this definitely works. Please provide logs of systemd-logind when this fails. i.e. "journalctl -u systemd-journald" or so. Lennart