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accountsservice daemon lacks dbus interfaces

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From: L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: accountsservice daemon lacks dbus interfaces
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 14:04:20 +0200

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hello,

The accountsservice service hasn't access to dbus' interfaces throwing
an error when they're needed.The problem, at least, appears with LightDM.
The error looks like:

WARNING: Error updating user /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: No such interface
"org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.AccountsService"

For information, it already occured[0] and was resolved[1][2] in NixOS.

After testing, simply wrapping the accountsservice package with relevant
XDG_DATA_DIRS directories as done in the attached patch resolves the
issue. However, there might be a proper solution I'm not aware of.
Also the patch used in [2] doesn't seem to be needed in Guix.

Have a nice day,

L  p R n  d n

[0]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/45059
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/45107
[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/72400

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Message #8 received at 41207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: L p R n d n <guix <at> lprndn.info>
Cc: 41207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41207: accountsservice daemon lacks dbus interfaces
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:01:17 +0200

Hello,

L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info> skribis:

> The accountsservice service hasn't access to dbus' interfaces throwing
> an error when they're needed.The problem, at least, appears with LightDM.
> The error looks like:
>
> WARNING: Error updating user /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000:
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: No such interface
> "org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.AccountsService"

Apparently this error message comes from lightdm, so the issue is that
lightdm doesn’t find the ‘org.freedesktop.Accounts.service’, right?

How is lightdm started?  I wonder if there’s something to be done in the
service definition instead.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #11 received at 41207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 41207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41207: accountsservice daemon lacks dbus interfaces
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 16:46:28 +0200

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info> skribis:
>
>> The accountsservice service hasn't access to dbus' interfaces throwing
>> an error when they're needed.The problem, at least, appears with LightDM.
>> The error looks like:
>>
>> WARNING: Error updating user /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000:
>> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: No such interface
>> "org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.AccountsService"
>
> Apparently this error message comes from lightdm, so the issue is that
> lightdm doesn’t find the ‘org.freedesktop.Accounts.service’, right?

Not exactly, my understanding is that *accountsservice* doesn't find
'org.freedesktop.Accounts.service' which is provided (and asked) by
lightdm. (I think the error comes from accountsservice)

> How is lightdm started?  I wonder if there’s something to be done in the
> service definition instead.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Have a nice day,

L  p R n  d n

Message #14 received at 41207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: L p R n d n <guix <at> lprndn.info>
Cc: 41207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41207: accountsservice daemon lacks dbus interfaces
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 11:39:17 +0200

Hi,

L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info> skribis:
>>
>>> The accountsservice service hasn't access to dbus' interfaces throwing
>>> an error when they're needed.The problem, at least, appears with LightDM.
>>> The error looks like:
>>>
>>> WARNING: Error updating user /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User1000:
>>> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.InvalidArgs: No such interface
>>> "org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.AccountsService"
>>
>> Apparently this error message comes from lightdm, so the issue is that
>> lightdm doesn’t find the ‘org.freedesktop.Accounts.service’, right?
>
> Not exactly, my understanding is that *accountsservice* doesn't find
> 'org.freedesktop.Accounts.service' which is provided (and asked) by
> lightdm. (I think the error comes from accountsservice)

But see:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ (cd /tmp; tar xf $(guix build -S lightdm))
$ grep -r "Error updating user" /tmp/lightdm-1.30.0/
/tmp/lightdm-1.30.0/common/user-list.c:        g_warning ("Error updating user %s: %s", priv->path, error->message);
/tmp/lightdm-1.30.0/common/user-list.c:        g_warning ("Error updating user %s: %s", priv->path, error->message);
$ (cd /tmp; tar xf $(guix build -S accountsservice))
$ find /tmp/accountsservice-0.6.50/ -name org.freedesktop\*.service.in
/tmp/accountsservice-0.6.50/data/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service.in
$ find $(guix build accountsservice) -name org.freedesktop\*.service
/gnu/store/l9qyf0brhhq7mwcsyhjsh7k0d3ri3ay2-accountsservice-0.6.50/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

That’s why I think it’s lightdm (or dbus-daemon?) that fails to find the
.service file.

‘accountsservice-service-type’ extends dbus, such that we have
/etc/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service.  Do you
see this as well?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #17 received at 41207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 41207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41207: accountsservice daemon lacks dbus interfaces
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 14:37:50 +0200

Hello,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

>>> L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info> skribis:
[...]
>> Not exactly, my understanding is that *accountsservice* doesn't find
>> 'org.freedesktop.Accounts.service' which is provided (and asked) by
>> lightdm. (I think the error comes from accountsservice)
>
> But see:
>
> $ (cd /tmp; tar xf $(guix build -S lightdm))
> $ grep -r "Error updating user" /tmp/lightdm-1.30.0/
> /tmp/lightdm-1.30.0/common/user-list.c:        g_warning ("Error updating user %s: %s", priv->path, error->message);
> /tmp/lightdm-1.30.0/common/user-list.c:        g_warning ("Error updating user %s: %s", priv->path, error->message);
> $ (cd /tmp; tar xf $(guix build -S accountsservice))
> $ find /tmp/accountsservice-0.6.50/ -name org.freedesktop\*.service.in
> /tmp/accountsservice-0.6.50/data/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service.in
> $ find $(guix build accountsservice) -name org.freedesktop\*.service
> /gnu/store/l9qyf0brhhq7mwcsyhjsh7k0d3ri3ay2-accountsservice-0.6.50/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service
>
> That’s why I think it’s lightdm (or dbus-daemon?) that fails to find the
> .service file.
>
> ‘accountsservice-service-type’ extends dbus, such that we have
> /etc/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service.  Do you
> see this as well?

You're right! ;) And probably a dbus-daemon problem from what I
understand. But I really don't know what I'm talking about here...
However, just to clarify, I think it's not that it's not finding
dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service but
dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Accounts(.Users?).xml. In that case,
using #:env-variable for the dbus service might be a possibility.
Really, I have quite a lot of files in
/run/current-system/profile/share/dbus-1/interfaces but I don't know what are
their purpose... :/

> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

Have a nice day,

L  p R n  d n

Message #20 received at 41207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: L p R n d n <guix <at> lprndn.info>
Cc: 41207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#41207: accountsservice daemon lacks dbus interfaces
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 12:27:17 +0200

Hi,

L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>>>> L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info> skribis:
> [...]
>>> Not exactly, my understanding is that *accountsservice* doesn't find
>>> 'org.freedesktop.Accounts.service' which is provided (and asked) by
>>> lightdm. (I think the error comes from accountsservice)
>>
>> But see:
>>
>> $ (cd /tmp; tar xf $(guix build -S lightdm))
>> $ grep -r "Error updating user" /tmp/lightdm-1.30.0/
>> /tmp/lightdm-1.30.0/common/user-list.c:        g_warning ("Error updating user %s: %s", priv->path, error->message);
>> /tmp/lightdm-1.30.0/common/user-list.c:        g_warning ("Error updating user %s: %s", priv->path, error->message);
>> $ (cd /tmp; tar xf $(guix build -S accountsservice))
>> $ find /tmp/accountsservice-0.6.50/ -name org.freedesktop\*.service.in
>> /tmp/accountsservice-0.6.50/data/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service.in
>> $ find $(guix build accountsservice) -name org.freedesktop\*.service
>> /gnu/store/l9qyf0brhhq7mwcsyhjsh7k0d3ri3ay2-accountsservice-0.6.50/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service
>>
>> That’s why I think it’s lightdm (or dbus-daemon?) that fails to find the
>> .service file.
>>
>> ‘accountsservice-service-type’ extends dbus, such that we have
>> /etc/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service.  Do you
>> see this as well?
>
> You're right! ;) And probably a dbus-daemon problem from what I
> understand. But I really don't know what I'm talking about here...
> However, just to clarify, I think it's not that it's not finding
> dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service but
> dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Accounts(.Users?).xml. In that case,
> using #:env-variable for the dbus service might be a possibility.
> Really, I have quite a lot of files in
> /run/current-system/profile/share/dbus-1/interfaces but I don't know what are
> their purpose... :/

I think we’d need to look at the lightdm service to further debug this.

It’s not upstream yet, right?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #25 received at 41207-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 41207-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, L p R n d n <guix <at> lprndn.info>
Subject: Re: bug#41207: accountsservice daemon lacks dbus interfaces
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 09:21:58 -0400

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>>>> L  p R n  d n    <guix <at> lprndn.info> skribis:
>> [...]
>>>> Not exactly, my understanding is that *accountsservice* doesn't find
>>>> 'org.freedesktop.Accounts.service' which is provided (and asked) by
>>>> lightdm. (I think the error comes from accountsservice)
>>>
>>> But see:
>>>
>>> $ (cd /tmp; tar xf $(guix build -S lightdm))
>>> $ grep -r "Error updating user" /tmp/lightdm-1.30.0/
>>> /tmp/lightdm-1.30.0/common/user-list.c: g_warning ("Error updating
>>> user %s: %s", priv->path, error->message);
>>> /tmp/lightdm-1.30.0/common/user-list.c: g_warning ("Error updating
>>> user %s: %s", priv->path, error->message);
>>> $ (cd /tmp; tar xf $(guix build -S accountsservice))
>>> $ find /tmp/accountsservice-0.6.50/ -name org.freedesktop\*.service.in
>>> /tmp/accountsservice-0.6.50/data/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service.in
>>> $ find $(guix build accountsservice) -name org.freedesktop\*.service
>>> /gnu/store/l9qyf0brhhq7mwcsyhjsh7k0d3ri3ay2-accountsservice-0.6.50/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service
>>>
>>> That’s why I think it’s lightdm (or dbus-daemon?) that fails to find the
>>> .service file.
>>>
>>> ‘accountsservice-service-type’ extends dbus, such that we have
>>> /etc/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service.  Do you
>>> see this as well?
>>
>> You're right! ;) And probably a dbus-daemon problem from what I
>> understand. But I really don't know what I'm talking about here...
>> However, just to clarify, I think it's not that it's not finding
>> dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.Accounts.service but
>> dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Accounts(.Users?).xml. In that case,
>> using #:env-variable for the dbus service might be a possibility.
>> Really, I have quite a lot of files in
>> /run/current-system/profile/share/dbus-1/interfaces but I don't know what are
>> their purpose... :/
>
> I think we’d need to look at the lightdm service to further debug this.
>
> It’s not upstream yet, right?

We now ship a working lightdm service.  I believe this bug report was
fixed in 6aeabba2baa11b4a0a778fc353e62d0fe2f6b5ec ("gnu: lightdm: Build
AccountsService files.").

Closing.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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