Hi! Obviously the owner of a temporary directory cannot be an LDAP user: # systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup -l ● systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service - Create Volatile Files and Directories Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2019-05-22 09:02:48 CEST; 46min ago Docs: man:tmpfiles.d(5) man:systemd-tmpfiles(8) Process: 1056 ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove --boot --exclude-prefix=/dev (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 1056 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) May 22 09:02:48 v04 systemd-tmpfiles[1056]: nss-ldap: do_open: do_start_tls failed:stat=-1 May 22 09:02:48 v04 systemd-tmpfiles[1056]: nss-ldap: do_open: do_start_tls failed:stat=-1 May 22 09:02:48 v04 systemd-tmpfiles[1056]: nss-ldap: do_open: do_start_tls failed:stat=-1 May 22 09:02:48 v04 systemd-tmpfiles[1056]: nss-ldap: do_open: do_start_tls failed:stat=-1 May 22 09:02:48 v04 systemd-tmpfiles[1056]: nss-ldap: do_open: do_start_tls failed:stat=-1 May 22 09:02:48 v04 systemd-tmpfiles[1056]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable May 22 09:02:48 v04 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE May 22 09:02:48 v04 systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile Files and Directories. May 22 09:02:48 v04 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Unit entered failed state. May 22 09:02:48 v04 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. The basic problem is that LDAP needs network (which isn't up at this point). But still, it's hard to tell from the logged messages which entry actually caused the problem. From what I see "root" is the only user being used, and that user is local in /etc/passwd. /etc/nsswitch.conf has "passwd: compat"... I can create the missing directories later running "systemctl start systemd-tmpfiles-setup", but SLES has: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd-nologin.conf:F! /run/nologin 0644 - - - "System is booting up. See pam_nologin(8)" Which effectively locks out users when doing so. Any splendid ideas? Regards, Ulrich _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel