Package: accountsservice
Version: 0.6.43-1
Severity: serious
Summary: accounts-daemon.service fails to work properly when there are
two users in the system with the same UID. The service is still
running, but it shows an error message and makes unrelated software
break: gdm3 waits indefinitely and does not start Xorg at boot time.
Removing one of the offending users (or changing its UID) and
restarting accounts-daemon.service makes gdm3 work again.
Details:
After upgrading the system to stretch, gdm3 would not start Xorg
anymore, without giving any error or warning. After enabling debug
and restarting, its last message was:
Feb 10 13:30:17 petete gdm-launch-environment]: AccountsService:
ActUserManager: waiting for user manager to load before finding user
'Debian-gdm'
This made me think there was some problem with accounts-daemon:
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# systemctl status accounts-daemon | cat
● accounts-daemon.service - Accounts Service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/accounts-daemon.service; enabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2017-02-10 13:19:37 CET; 14min ago
Main PID: 29171 (accounts-daemon)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 1.4M
CPU: 81ms
CGroup: /system.slice/accounts-daemon.service
└─29171 /usr/lib/accountsservice/accounts-daemon
Feb 10 13:19:36 petete systemd[1]: Stopped Accounts Service.
Feb 10 13:19:36 petete systemd[1]: Starting Accounts Service...
Feb 10 13:19:37 petete accounts-daemon[29171]: error exporting user object: An
object is already exported for the interface org.freedesktop.Accounts.User at
/org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000
Feb 10 13:19:37 petete accounts-daemon[29171]: started daemon version 0.6.43
Feb 10 13:19:37 petete systemd[1]: Started Accounts Service.
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As you can see, the service is "loaded" and "active", but it shows an
error about "an object is already exported". As I said, after
removing the users with duplicate UIDs, accounts-daemon starts without
errors, and gdm3 runs fine and starts Xorg properly.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (300, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set
to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages accountsservice depends on:
ii dbus 1.10.14-1
ii init-system-helpers 1.47
ii libaccountsservice0 0.6.43-1
ii libc6 2.24-9
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.2-2
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-17
accountsservice recommends no packages.
Versions of packages accountsservice suggests:
ii gnome-control-center 1:3.22.1-2
-- no debconf information
