$ systemd --user Failed to create root cgroup hierarchy: Permission denied Failed to allocate manager object: Permission denied v205 release notes mention quite some changes regarding cgroups. After downgrading to systemd-204 everything works as expected. ===================== cave info systemd Package Manager Information: Package Name paludis Package Version 1.4.0 Build Date 2013-05-20T08:31:33+0200 Built with CXX x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ 4.7.2 Built with CXXFLAGS -march=corei7-avx -O2 -pipe -pedantic Built with LDFLAGS -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed Environment Information: Format paludis Config dir /etc/paludis Root / System Root / World file /var/db/pkg/world Repository gentoo: format e location /var/paludis/repositories/gentoo builddir /var/tmp/paludis cache /var/paludis/repositories/gentoo/metadata/md5-cache distdir /var/distfiles eapi_when_unknown 0 eapi_when_unspecified 0 eclassdirs /var/paludis/repositories/gentoo/eclass layout traditional manifest_hashes SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL names_cache /var/paludis/repositories/gentoo/.cache/names newsdir /var/paludis/repositories/gentoo/metadata/news profile_eapi_when_unspecified 0 profile_layout traditional profiles /etc/make.profile /var/paludis/repositories/local/profiles securitydir /var/paludis/repositories/gentoo/metadata/glsa setsdir /var/paludis/repositories/gentoo/sets sync rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage sync_options thin_manifests false use_manifest use write_cache /var/cache/paludis/metadata Package information app-shells/bash 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python 2.7.5 3.2.5-r1 dev-util/ccache 3.1.9 dev-util/cmake 2.8.10.2-r2 dev-util/pkgconfig 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout 2.2 sys-apps/openrc 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf 2.13 2.69 sys-devel/automake 1.11.6 1.12.6 sys-devel/binutils 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc 4.7.3 sys-devel/gcc-config 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make 3.82-r4 sys-freebsd/freebsd-lib (none) sys-kernel/linux-headers 3.9 sys-libs/glibc 2.15-r3 sys-libs/uclibc (none) Extra Information for sys-apps/systemd-204::installed: >>> Running ebuild phase killold as paludisbuild:paludisbuild... >>> Starting builtin_killold >>> Done builtin_killold >>> Completed ebuild phase killold >>> Running ebuild phases initmisc infovars info as paludisbuild:paludisbuild... >>> Starting builtin_initmisc bunzip2 < /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/systemd-204/environment.bz2 > /var/tmp/paludis/environment-sys-apps-systemd-204-2673 ebuild_scrub_environment /var/tmp/paludis/environment-sys-apps-systemd-204-2673 ebuild_safe_source /var/tmp/paludis/environment-sys-apps-systemd-204-2673 rm /var/tmp/paludis/environment-sys-apps-systemd-204-2673 >>> Done builtin_initmisc >>> Starting builtin_infovars ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64 CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=corei7-avx -O2 -pipe -ggdb CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c CPPFLAGS= CTARGET= CXXFLAGS=-march=corei7-avx -O2 -pipe -ggdb DISTDIR=/var/db/pkg/sys-apps/systemd-204 FCFLAGS=-O2 -pipe FEATURES= FFLAGS=-O2 -pipe GENTOO_MIRRORS= INSTALL_MASK= LANG= LC_ALL=C LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed MAKEOPTS=-j15 PORTAGE_COMPRESS= PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS= PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT= PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS= PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS= PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp/paludis PORTDIR=/var/db/pkg/sys-apps/systemd-204 PORTDIR_OVERLAY= SYNC= USE=acl amd64 firmware-loader gudev introspection keymap kmod pam tcpd elibc_glibc kernel_linux python_single_target_python2_7 python_targets_python2_7 userland_GNU amd64 USE_PYTHON= >>> Done builtin_infovars >>> Starting pkg_info >>> Done pkg_info >>> Completed ebuild phases initmisc infovars info >>> Running ebuild phase tidyup as paludisbuild:paludisbuild... >>> Starting builtin_tidyup rm -fr /var/tmp/paludis/sys-apps-systemd-204-info >>> Done builtin_tidyup >>> Completed ebuild phase tidyup Extra Information for sys-apps/systemd-206:0::gentoo: >>> Running ebuild phase killold as paludisbuild:paludisbuild... >>> Starting builtin_killold >>> Done builtin_killold >>> Completed ebuild phase killold >>> Running ebuild phases initmisc infovars info as paludisbuild:paludisbuild... >>> Starting builtin_initmisc >>> Done builtin_initmisc >>> Starting builtin_infovars ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64 CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=corei7-avx -O2 -pipe -ggdb CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu CONFIG_PROTECT= CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK= CPPFLAGS= CTARGET= CXXFLAGS=-march=corei7-avx -O2 -pipe -ggdb DISTDIR=/var/distfiles FCFLAGS=-O2 -pipe FEATURES= FFLAGS=-O2 -pipe GENTOO_MIRRORS= INSTALL_MASK= LANG= LC_ALL=C LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed MAKEOPTS=-j15 PORTAGE_COMPRESS= PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS= PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT= PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS= PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS= PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp/paludis PORTDIR=/var/paludis/repositories/gentoo PORTDIR_OVERLAY= SYNC= USE=acl amd64 filecaps firmware-loader gudev introspection kmod pam tcpd elibc_glibc kernel_linux python_single_target_python2_7 python_targets_python2_7 userland_GNU amd64 USE_PYTHON= >>> Done builtin_infovars >>> Starting pkg_info >>> Done pkg_info >>> Completed ebuild phases initmisc infovars info >>> Running ebuild phase tidyup as paludisbuild:paludisbuild... >>> Starting builtin_tidyup rm -fr /var/tmp/paludis/sys-apps-systemd-206-info >>> Done builtin_tidyup >>> Completed ebuild phase tidyup
To be honest, I have never used the user mode and I doubt I can do anything specific to help. Could you open a bug report upstream (bugs.freedesktop.org) or shall I proxy it for you?
I created a report upstream: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67471
Looks like upstream thinks it's not really a bug
Upstream also says enable user@service and you will get your systemd --user again. But it does not work. I still try to find a solution, but if upstream says it "should" work this might as well be a Gentoo packaging issue. Let's see.