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gnome-shell session is terminated when systemd-logind is restarted #17308

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systemd version the issue has been seen with

all, incl. recent git master

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Fedora 33.

This is a long-standing annoyance. In the past we couldn't restart various services without losing state. But since the introduction of fd storage in pid1 all services should be restartable. We fixed systemd-journald a long time ago. In principle systemd-logind should be restartable too, but this doesn't work at all with gnome-shell.

I don't know the cause of the issue. Maybe it's in logind, maybe in gnome-shell, maybe somewhere else. Let's use this ticket to track this. I think there was some special code in gnome-shell (or was it gdm?) to terminate upon logind restart... but I can't find it now.

/cc @benzea

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