Running a user-level services in Rocky 9

https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/running-a-user-level-services-in-rocky-9/11880

post by Ritov on Nov 17, 2023 post by ariksu on Nov 17, 2023 post by ariksu on Nov 17, 2023

ariksu Nov 2023 Problem solved, thank you @Ritov .

(Feeling a great temptation skip problem solution and root cause description but i am not such an evil person).

Beside lingering another item is required: user must be logged in through logind. This could be checked by typing

$ whoami test $ loginctl list-sessions SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY c15 1009 test pts/0

1 sessions listed. but in my case i was seeing the following behaviour

sh-5.1$ whoami ssm-user sh-5.1$ loginctl list-sessions No sessions. sh-5.1$ sudo su gitlab-runner bash-5.1$ whoami gitlab-runner bash-5.1$ loginctl list-sessions SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY c16 0 root pts/0

1 sessions listed. So basically, ssm console which is using ssm user does not using logind to log on. And switching user through sudo su creates a session for a root, not for a user you’re switching to.

TLDR: To run user services you need

enable lingering via loginctl enable-linger username log as user either via

su username or via normal ssh.

Running “sudo su username” will create dbus for root and will block you from running systemctl –user!!!

2 months later