Am 08.11.2014 um 15:22 schrieb Nate Bargmann:
> * On 2014 08 Nov 06:52 -0600, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
>> Nate Bargmann:
>>> Comparing the two systems I see  that the one with the failure has
>>> 'console-kit-daemon.service' shown as "active (running)" and the one
>>> without the failure shows it as "inactive (dead)".  The consolekit
>>> package is installed on each system, but '/etc/systemd/system'
>>> doesn't have anything related to consolekit on either machine.
>>
>> You'll find it in /usr/lib/systemd/system, since it is a pre-packaged
>> service rather than your local administrative addition.
>>
>> The systemd PAM plug-in instantiates from the user@.service template when
>> something attempts to authenticate with a user's credentials.
>>
>> * http://freedesktop.org./software/systemd/man/pam_systemd.html
>>
>> You're not the only person on the WWW to unknowingly have a
>> "user@9.service".  The person who reported Debian Bug #758159 has one, too.
>> But then xe didn't notice that xe has a running "serial-getty@ttyS2.service"
>> with /sbin/agetty as process #1173. (-:
>>
>> Your next stop is looking for that cron job, buried somewhere on your
>> system, that "su"s to user "news".  Hint: It's part of slrn.
> 
> Thanks for the reply, Jonathan.
> 
> Odd thing is that the failure disappeared for a time (I posted a
> followup to my OP that was never delivered to the list) and now I see
> that I have a "user@65534.service" failed:

[..]

> Which I have no idea what this is about and will have to investigate
> later as I have to keep a schedule.


This looks like

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759320
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760649

I.e. a failed user@.service unit for system users with a nonexisting
home directory.

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