On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:39:45AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Just wondering -- did it refuse to boot or be otherwise seriously
> unusable until you had installed elogind and libelogind0? Were your
> text-only consoles affected? Or did it just interfere with desktops?
>
> And just curious -- never heard of these before systemd. What do they
> do?

>From https://github.com/elogind/elogind/:

'The systemd project's "logind", extracted to a standalone package'

It keeps a record of logins, seats and sessions and maps pids to those so that
desktoppy things like being able to reboot from the desktop work without having
to become root.

Mark