However. Just check my mail (Icedove, of course) and... Whoops. I seem to be back at the lightdm greeter that wants me to log in..
let's repeat that.. Yep.. and again. Yep.. And syslog says lots of narsty things about dbus, and logs
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[1324]: A connection to the bus can't be made
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[1324]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[1324]: (process:4052): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: Owner of volume monitor org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor disconnected from the bus; removing drives/volumes/mounts
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.Private.UDisks2VolumeMonitor[1324]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.Private.GoaVolumeMonitor[1324]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Error receiving message: Connection reset by peer (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[1324]: (process:4052): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: Owner of volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GoaVolumeMonitor disconnected from the bus; removing drives/volumes/mounts
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.Private.AfcVolumeMonitor[1324]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Error receiving message: Connection reset by peer (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[1324]: (process:4052): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: Owner of volume monitor org.gtk.Private.AfcVolumeMonitor disconnected from the bus; removing drives/volumes/mounts
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[1324]: (process:4052): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: Owner of volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor disconnected from the bus; removing drives/volumes/mounts
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[1324]: (process:4052): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: Owner of volume monitor org.gtk.Private.MTPVolumeMonitor disconnected from the bus; removing drives/volumes/mounts
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.Private.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor[1324]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Error receiving message: Connection reset by peer (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.Private.MTPVolumeMonitor[1324]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Error receiving message: Connection reset by peer (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[1324]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[1324]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[1324]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Apr 10 02:48:55 yoshi org.gtk.vfs.Daemon[1324]: g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Apr 10 02:48:56 yoshi lightdm[808]: ** (process:4849): WARNING **: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files
Apr 10 02:48:56 yoshi systemd[1]: Starting Session c6 of user lightdm.
Apr 10 02:48:56 yoshi systemd[1]: Started Session c6 of user lightdm.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[1]: Starting user-0.slice.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[1]: Created slice user-0.slice.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UID 0...
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[1]: Starting Session c7 of user root.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[1]: Started Session c7 of user root.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[4874]: Starting Paths.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[4874]: Reached target Paths.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[4874]: Starting Timers.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[4874]: Reached target Timers.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[4874]: Starting Sockets.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[4874]: Reached target Sockets.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[4874]: Starting Basic System.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[4874]: Reached target Basic System.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[4874]: Starting Default.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[4874]: Reached target Default.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[4874]: Startup finished in 44ms.
Apr 10 02:49:07 yoshi systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 0.
to syslog.
So another SDcard, a fresh up to date official image, and.. Exactly the same problem.
Not sure where the best (orificial) place to feed that back to the official raspbian sorta/kinda/maybe-a-bit/open/closed-source-bit-twiddlers is, so posting here for your enjoyment, and so I can point the young ladies who expect me to be emailing them 24/7, at the link to this, and blame the closed source/systemd/dbus/perl/python/java *insert your favourite Yet Another Faddish Language here* brigades. (as Microsoft are nowhere to be found in this house!) which should keep me out of various doghouses, and in the land of cooked food.