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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’m trying to do the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">root@</span><span lang="EN-US">host</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">:~# systemctl set-environment XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/503"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">root@</span><span lang="EN-US">host</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">:~# systemctl start
</span><a href="mailto:user@503.service"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">user@503.service</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On systemd 253.4, the user can be started manually, and I can list the directory:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">root@<span lang="EN-US">host</span>:~# ls -la /run/user/503<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">drwx------ 3 debugar debugar 80 Dec 4 09:08 .<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Dec 4 09:08 ..<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">srw-rw-rw- 1 debugar debugar 0 Dec 4 09:08 bus<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">drwxr-xr-x 4 debugar debugar 120 Dec 4 09:08 systemd<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On last systemd v254-stable and v255-stable, I got the following instead:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">root@<span lang="EN-US">host</span>:/var/log# journalctl -xeu
<a href="mailto:user@503.service">user@503.service</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dec 06 12:40:41 <span lang="EN-US">host</span> systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UID 503...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dec 06 12:40:41 <span lang="EN-US">host </span>systemd[7939]: Failed to copy os-release for propagation, ignoring: Permission denied<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dec 06 12:40:41 <span lang="EN-US">host</span> systemd[7939]: Failed to allocate manager object: Permission denied<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dec 06 12:40:41 <span lang="EN-US">host</span> systemd[1]: <a href="mailto:user@503.service">
user@503.service</a>: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dec 06 12:40:41 <span lang="EN-US">host</span> systemd[1]: <a href="mailto:user@503.service">
user@503.service</a>: Failed with result 'exit-code'.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dec 06 12:40:41 <span lang="EN-US">host</span> systemd[1]: Failed to start User Manager for UID 503.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">systemd was able to create the dir /run/user/503, but got errno -13 (Permission denied) when it was trying to do mkdirat with path /run/user/503/systemd in function mkdirat_label() in file mkdir-label.c.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Do I need to do something else before starting
<a href="mailto:user@%3cuid%3e.service">user@<uid>.service</a> or is this a bug?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Christopher Wong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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