I have a small server running a minimal centos8. I need to create services as a user and would like to use systemctl to do so. I found I can use systemctl --user to create services without root permission, but any of those commands result in:
Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
After a preliminary Google search I found that the culprit is the absence of XDG_ env variables, after adding them manually as in the exports:
$ export -p | grep XDG
declare -x XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000"
declare -x XDG_SESSION_ID="328295"
I couldn't run systemctl --user anyway, because /run/user/ is empty I guess.
$ systemctl status dbus
● dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-01-13 14:26:04 GMT; 5h 43min ago
Docs: man:dbus-daemon(1)
Main PID: 332 (dbus-daemon)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 26213)
Memory: 3.6M
CGroup: /system.slice/dbus.service
└─332 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile -->
dbus seems to be running fine the only anomaly I found was:
$ loginctl session-status
328295 - server (1000)
Since: Wed 2021-01-13 20:00:44 GMT; 10min ago
Leader: 29745 (sshd)
Remote: #############
Service: sshd; type tty; class user
State: active
Unit: session-328295.scope
├─29745 sshd: server [priv]
├─29747 sshd: server@pts/0
├─29748 -bash
├─29790 loginctl session-status
└─29791 loginctl session-status
Which apprears as sshd is the init process for this session (probably creating problems with dbus?). Just to check I tred:
$ dbus-monitor
Failed to open connection to session bus: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
Which seems unreasonable, I souldn't run a Xsession to have dbus working and access to services (anyway the server is headless and no x-server, moreover I run ssh from Windows).
At this point I think there is a problem with sshd, but I don't know what to search for.
