Package: sddm Version: 0.21.0-1.1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: z...@debian.org User: z...@debian.org Usertags: utmp-disable
Hi, starting with systemd 256.7-2, utmp support has been disabled [1]. This was done as utmp is not Y2038 safe. For more details, see [2]. After this change, /run/utmp is no longer created by systemd leading to the following warning in the systemd journal on boot: Nov 12 19:06:30 mars sddm-helper[1948]: Failed to write utmpx: No such file or directory As the expected environment in trixie is, that /run/utmp no longer exists, it doesn't make sense to log such a warning message. For other distros, that made the same changes, users where mislead by this error/warning message [3]. The code to update /run/utmp should thus be disabled on Debian sid/trixie or at least the warning message downgraded to debug. I've CCed zeha who knows a lot more about the finer details for this change. If you have further questions, it's probably best if you CC zeha as well. Regards, Michael [1] https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/commit/249676834ca241cc407622b8cd3d540121956897 [2] https://wiki.debian.org/pam_lastlog2%20and%20wtmpdb [3] https://forums.opensuse.org/t/failed-to-write-utmpx-no-such-file-or-directory/175978/3 -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.11.7-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages sddm depends on: ii adduser 3.137 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.87 ii libc6 2.40-3 ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-8 ii libpam0g 1.5.3-7+b1 ii libqt5core5t64 5.15.15+dfsg-2 ii libqt5dbus5t64 5.15.15+dfsg-2 ii libqt5gui5t64 5.15.15+dfsg-2 ii libqt5network5t64 5.15.15+dfsg-2 ii libqt5qml5 5.15.15+dfsg-3 ii libqt5quick5 5.15.15+dfsg-3 ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-8 ii libsystemd0 257~rc1-4 ii libxau6 1:1.0.11-1 ii libxcb-xkb1 1.17.0-2+b1 ii libxcb1 1.17.0-2+b1 ii qml-module-qtquick2 5.15.15+dfsg-3 ii x11-common 1:7.7+23.1 ii xauth 1:1.1.2-1 ii xkb-data 2.42-1 ii xserver-xephyr [xserver] 2:21.1.14-2 ii xserver-xorg [xserver] 1:7.7+23.1 Versions of packages sddm recommends: ii libpam-systemd 257~rc1-4 ii sddm-theme-breeze [sddm-theme] 4:5.27.11.1-1+b2 ii sddm-theme-debian-breeze [sddm-theme] 4:5.27.11.1-1+b2 Versions of packages sddm suggests: ii libpam-kwallet5 6.1.4-2 pn qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin <none> -- debconf information: sddm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/sddm * shared/default-x-display-manager: sddm
