Bug#803907: systemd: Unable to shutdown/restart because of 'nobody' session

[Michael Biebl]

On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:45:14 -0800 Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 215-17+deb8u2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I would like to restart my system, but:
> 
> $ systemctl poweroff
> User nobody is logged in on ???.
> Please retry operation after closing inhibitors and logging out other
> users.
> Alternatively, ignore inhibitors and users with 'systemctl poweroff -i'.
> 
> Upon closer investigation:
> 
> $ grep nobody /etc/passwd
> nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
> $ ps -U 65534
>   PID TTY          TIME CMD
>  7701 ?        00:00:00 systemd
>  7702 ?        00:00:00 (sd-pam)
> 
> 
> I don't know what exactly this systemd process is doing, but I
> did not start it, and I can't imagine that it does anything useful.

Is this still a problem?

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