I'm running a debian wheezy server and switched to systemd by installing systemd-sysv. So far everything works as before. Now I want to allow users to run/ manage their own units/ daemons with systemd. For a simple test I tried running systemctl --user as a normal user, but it always fails with:
gucki@debian:~$ systemctl --user
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
How can I fix this? I do not want to run/ install any graphical stuff on the server, I don't need X11.
UPDATE 1:
I finally managed to find out the error is output because there's no systemd user manager for user gucki running. When I start it as root using systemctl start [email protected] everything works as expected.
HOWEVER:
I was not yet able to get the service [email protected] automatically started on boot. When I symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/[email protected] -> /lib/systemd/system/[email protected] the service is started, however the user gucki get's the same error message as before. Doing a "systemctl restart [email protected]" as root hangs until I hit ctrl-c. According to ps it's hanging in "/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent --watch".
So finally I "only" wonder how I can get [email protected] started automatically on boot?
UPDATE 2: It seems the version of systemd in wheezy is very old (44) and buggy. I upgraded to 204 from backports (still old, current is 217) but it seems to work now as expected.
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