Name: Fix LightDM error "The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files"
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Author: nabbisen

Fix LightDM error "The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files"

nabbisen - Jan 26 '21 -

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I found such a log in LightDM log (/var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log).

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

It means the system lacked D-Bus AccountsService of freedesktop.org.
This is my Artix (Arch-based) Linux output:

$ pacman -Ss accountsservice
world/accountsservice 0.6.55-3
    D-Bus interface for user account query and manipulation
extra/accountsservice 0.6.55-3
    D-Bus interface for user account query and manipulation

I installed the package:

$ doas pacman -Sy accountsservice

then reboot and the warning (error) log had gone ☺