[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#741698:

Thu Mar 27 10:44:19 UTC 2014

I see a similar bug with XFCE and systemd, when closing the laptop lid:

dbus[2301]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.systemd1' (using
servicehelper)
dbus[2301]: [system] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed:
Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1

It can be seen both from within the desktop, and from a virtual terminal.

According to bug #729576 the answer is to install systemd-sysv, I can
confirm that installing this package fixes the issue. Perhaps it
should be a dependency of lightdm?