Argh, many thanks for pointing this out! What an obvious and silly error. This does not affect 14.10 as the upstart job for logind is gone entirely in favor of D-BUS activation. But this must be fixed for 14.04.
** Also affects: systemd (Ubuntu Trusty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Trusty) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Trusty) Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti) ** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Trusty) Milestone: None => ubuntu-14.04.2 ** Summary changed: - systemd-logind upstart script is flawed + systemd-logind upstart script breaks if libpam-systemd is installed for more than one arch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1382510 Title: systemd-logind upstart script breaks if libpam-systemd is installed for more than one arch Status in “systemd” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “systemd” source package in Trusty: Triaged Bug description: /etc/init/systemd-logind.conf contains the following: # only start if PAM module is actually available, not if libpam-systemd is # removed but not purged [ -e /lib/*/security/pam_systemd.so ] || { stop; exit 0; } Which is a wrongly written script. It assumes that there is at most one file matching the wildcard. It is not true in my system. If your system have both libpam-systemd:amd64 and libpam-systemd:i386 then: # ls /lib/*/security/pam_systemd.so /lib/i386-linux-gnu/security/pam_systemd.so /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/pam_systemd.so and you get the following: # cat /var/log/upstart/systemd-logind.log /proc/self/fd/9: 4: [: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/security/pam_systemd.so: unexpected operator systemd-logind stop/pre-start, process 2462 systemd-logind does not start at all. This causes many bad things to happen later. There are many ways to fix this. For my purposes I removed the faulty line from the file. I don't know what is the expected behaviour. Maybe this one: ls /lib/*/security/pam_systemd.so &> /dev/null || { stop; exit 0; } This bug might be the root cause of other bugs. Like this one: #1372187 (and #1377727) My system info: # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 # apt-cache policy libpam-systemd libpam-systemd: Installed: 204-5ubuntu20.7 Candidate: 204-5ubuntu20.7 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1382510/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp