I was playing with different similar users (system user with nologin) $ for u in $(grep nologin /etc/passwd | cut -d':' -f 1); do echo Trying $u; /tmp/rtkit-0.12/rtkit-daemon --stderr --user-name $u; done
Working: daemon bin sys games man lp mail news uucp proxy www-data backup list irc gnats nobody dnsmasq cups-pk-helper saned pulse geoclue nm-openvpn nm-openconnect Debian-exim radvd sanlock gluster statd tcpdump systemd-coredump Failing: systemd-network systemd-resolve syslog messagebus _apt uuidd avahi-autoipd usbmux kernoops avahi colord libvirt-qemu libvirt-dnsmasq mpd apt-cacher-ng _rpc systemd-timesync rtkit Now what differentiates those two groups ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to rtkit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1871543 Title: rtkit fails to start in focal "pthread_create failed: Resource temporarily unavailable" Status in rtkit package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I was debugging something else and found rtkit broken on my system. Apr 08 06:09:22 Keschdeichel rtkit-daemon[1726502]: Successfully called chroot. Apr 08 06:09:22 Keschdeichel rtkit-daemon[1726502]: Successfully dropped privileges. Apr 08 06:09:22 Keschdeichel rtkit-daemon[1726502]: Successfully limited resources. Apr 08 06:09:22 Keschdeichel rtkit-daemon[1726502]: pthread_create failed: Resource temporarily unavailable Apr 08 06:09:22 Keschdeichel rtkit-daemon[1726502]: Canary thread running. Apr 08 06:09:22 Keschdeichel rtkit-daemon[1726502]: Exiting canary thread. Apr 08 06:09:22 Keschdeichel rtkit-daemon[1726502]: Demoting known real-time threads. Apr 08 06:09:22 Keschdeichel rtkit-daemon[1726502]: Demoted 0 threads That state is reproducible through restarts. I haven't looked any further yet. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: rtkit 0.12-4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-45.37~18.04.1-generic 5.3.18 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-45-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu24 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed Apr 8 07:59:58 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-12 (543 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725) SourcePackage: rtkit UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-03 (4 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rtkit/+bug/1871543/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
