Package: upower Version: 0.99.9-2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
since an dist-upgrade few days ago among other things upower.service fails to start and is not working at all. Below are some outputs - I hope they help. I'd be glad to provide more information. Just for information, although probably not related - since that d-u there are alot of other problems. Among them I have filed * Bug#917950: baloo_file_extr[2787]: segfault * Bug#918352: initramfs: initramfs-tools is broken or not fully installed and update-initramfs fails with 1 Thanks alot for your time and help! Maria # systemctl enable upower.service Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants/upower.service → /lib/systemd/system/upower.service. root@MyMachineName:~# systemctl start upower.service Job for upower.service failed because of unavailable resources or another system error. See "systemctl status upower.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. # systemctl status upower.service ● upower.service - Daemon for power management Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/upower.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: resources) since Sat 2019-01-05 11:45:11 CET; 3min 37s ago Docs: man:upowerd(8) Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: upower.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: upower.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: Stopped Daemon for power management. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: upower.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed with result 'resources'. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon for power management. root@MyMachineName:~# journalctl -xe -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- A stop job for unit upower.service has finished. -- -- The job identifier is 67597 and the job result is done. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed to run 'start' task: No such file or directory Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed with result 'resources'. -- Subject: Unit failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- The unit upower.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'resources'. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon for power management. -- Subject: A start job for unit upower.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- A start job for unit upower.service has finished with a failure. -- -- The job identifier is 67597 and the job result is failed. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: upower.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: upower.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. -- Subject: Automatic restarting of a unit has been scheduled -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- Automatic restarting of the unit upower.service has been scheduled, as the result for -- the configured Restart= setting for the unit. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: Stopped Daemon for power management. -- Subject: A stop job for unit upower.service has finished -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- A stop job for unit upower.service has finished. -- -- The job identifier is 67712 and the job result is done. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: upower.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: upower.service: Failed with result 'resources'. -- Subject: Unit failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- The unit upower.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'resources'. Jan 05 11:45:11 MyMachineName systemd[1]: Failed to start Daemon for power management. -- Subject: A start job for unit upower.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: https://www.debian.org/support -- -- A start job for unit upower.service has finished with a failure. -- -- The job identifier is 67712 and the job result is failed. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages upower depends on: ii dbus 1.12.12-1 ii libc6 2.28-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.1-2 ii libgudev-1.0-0 232-2 ii libimobiledevice6 1.2.1~git20181007.b34e343-1 ii libplist3 2.0.0-5 ii libupower-glib3 0.99.9-2 ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.22-2 ii udev 240-2 Versions of packages upower recommends: ii policykit-1 0.105-23 upower suggests no packages. -- no debconf information