[systemd-devel] systemd-logind.service failed

[Kay Sievers]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 22:02, Sven Anders <anders at anduras.de> wrote:
> I'm trying to switch to systemd, but I have some minor problem.
>
> "systemctl status systemd-logind.service" reports failure.
> The error message is the following:
>
> Linux/OS (d-login)[206]: Failed at step CAPABILITIES...
>
> I made a strace on systemd and it seems, that the following
> call fails:
> prctl(0x18 /* PR_??? */, 0x24, 0, 0xbff824c0, 0x3) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
>
> I looked at the code and in execute.c I found a loop
>  for (i = 0; i <= cap_last_cap(); i++)
>
> cap_last_cap() uses the CAP_LAST_CAP define. Fine, this is set to 35 (0x23)
>
> If I do a "cat /proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap" it returns 35 (ok, the same...)
>
> So, why is the program trying to set 0x24?
>
> (I'm tested this on the kernel version 3.2.2)
>
> Maybe anyone has an idea?

You compiled systemd with the same kernel version as you run it and
see the failure?

Kay