Package: libpam-systemd Version: 232-23 Followup-For: Bug #732209 I see the same problem show up on my GNOME box. In my case, it is tracker that is complaining, which could be a reason why I haven't directly witnessed any loss of functionality in my laptop usage.
May 18 11:44:52 learner dbus-daemon[5176]: Reloaded configuration May 18 11:45:32 learner tracker-extract[5459]: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. May 18 11:45:39 learner fdm[29614]: researchut: 17 messages processed (0 kept) in 37.985 seconds (average 2.234) May 18 11:45:57 learner chromium.desktop[6365]: [6365:6365:0518/114557.763909:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(279)] Gdk: gdk_window_set_user_time called on non-toplevel May 18 11:45:58 learner chromium.desktop[6365]: [6365:6365:0518/114558.138419:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(279)] Gdk: gdk_window_set_user_time called on non-toplevel May 18 11:46:10 learner tracker-extract[5459]: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (990, 'testing-debug'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.10.13+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IN.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libpam-systemd depends on: ii dbus 1.10.18-1 ii libc6 2.24-10 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.5 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.5 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b1 ii systemd 232-23 ii systemd-sysv 232-23 libpam-systemd recommends no packages. libpam-systemd suggests no packages. -- no debconf information