User Manager service enters failed state in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Issue
-
After a password expired for a user,
- That user's user manager service entered failed state
-
That user is unable to run various systemd commands they normally can run
# systemctl --user daemon-reload Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
-
/run/user/
is missing directories for the noted user# id user uid=1005(user) gid=1005(user) groups=1005(user) # ls /run/user/ 0
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Systemd version older than
systemd-239-68.el8
- Effected user is configured with
lingering
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