[SOLVED] Autologin on agetty | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

limber narwhal Apr 9, 2024, 4:49 PM

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I'm trying to setup autologin. I followed the instructions as per the wiki
But agetty errors out.
journalctl says it "failed to open credentials directory"
What should I do here?

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white wave Apr 9, 2024, 5:01 PM

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@limber narwhal why not have it auto start via your bash/zsh profile?

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  exec startx
fi```

limber narwhal Apr 9, 2024, 5:08 PM

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im talking about logging in automatically, not starting X

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i already have that set up 👍

white wave Apr 9, 2024, 5:16 PM

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@limber narwhal that logs you in automatically as well

limber narwhal Apr 9, 2024, 8:04 PM

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isnt zprofile executed after you log in?

white wave Apr 9, 2024, 8:05 PM

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limber narwhal isnt zprofile executed *after* you log in?

no

limber narwhal Apr 12, 2024, 4:09 AM

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im pretty sure it is executed after

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you have the tty login first, then your login shell's .profile gets executed

limber narwhal Apr 17, 2024, 11:11 AM

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So I retried this, but this time I didn't pass in the XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11 variable to the Envrionement= field in the getty serivce drop-in file. For some reason, that fixed it. I'm not sure what happened here internally but it works now.

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There is a separate problem with pam not opening the login keyring in the gnome-keyring (i think the command is run, but the gnome-keyring-daemon isn't autostarted by the time it enters a dead state). Will probably open a different issue for that though if I can't apply a fix. Marking as solved.

#[SOLVED] Autologin on agetty