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dbus: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.login1': timed out

I ran into this issue when setting up a LXC container on Proxmox. The problem was caused by me not ticking the box to allowed nested containers when configuring the LXC container. As I understand it ...
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dbus: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.login1': timed out

On my DietPi instance, I got this filling up the log files when I enabled the serial console. The problem was that systemd-logind.service was masked. This was an easy fix: sudo systemctl unmask ...
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dbus: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.login1': timed out

Restarting only systemd-logind service is not enough, it just postpones the main problem. Seems like this is caused by too many files pilled up under '/run/systemd/system/', created by the service ...
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Proftpd: total disable user login

Quote from ProFTPD: Configuring Limits What if a site wished to allow only anonymous access? This would be configured using the LOGIN command group, as above: <Limit LOGIN> DenyAll </...
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Proftpd does not initialize on startup

If systemctl status proftpd does not say the service is currently enabled, you'll need systemctl enable proftpd to tell systemd the service should be started at boot time. Conversely, if you want to ...
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proFTPD not working due to socket bind error

The strace output indicates that the error is caused by the attempt to create /run/proftpd.sock, which apparently already exists. Try fuser /run/proftpd.sock to see if any process is holding onto it; ...
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Proftpd does not initialize on startup

This problem exists also on Ubuntu 22.04, e.g. in Azure Cloud. The reason is, that the daemon is started, as long proftpd isn't able to resolve its own /etc/hostname to IP. Later on, it's able to ...
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sftp failed to connect when FIPS is enabled

Found the solution.Proftdp did not support all ciphers which are allowed in FIPS. configuration contains AES-128-CTR, changing it to AES-128-CBC solved the problem.
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ssh & ftp time out. Activation of org.freedesktop.systemd1 timed out

The problem miraculously disappeared after I updated dbus package sudo apt update sudo apt install dbus Now the GUI is back and ssh & ftp login no longer time out.
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winSCP cannot access proFTPd via FTP or SFTP

I did solve my problem by configuring sftp on openssh following the following tutorial: setting up an sftp server sorry for the german link and thanks for the answers!
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Unable to install proftp or pureftp on centos 6 (typical instructions don't work)

Looks like probably epel on your machine is not enabled. Even though you installed it, you may have to enable it manually. Check /etc/yum.repos.d/ for epel.repo file and set it to enabled=1 if it's ...
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proftpd kills session with 421 timeout error message

Looking at your wireshark, you seem to be using FTP active mode in the client. I would recommend FTP using passive mode. Passive mode plays better with firewall rules. see Active FTP vs. Passive FTP,...
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dbus: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.login1': timed out

On systems honoring init freedom like Devuan GNU+Linux (chimaera), if you do not use a GUI at all, you can purge elogind: sudo apt purge elogind This will install a handful new packages and purge ...
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dbus: [system] Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.login1': timed out

I was faced with the same issue today and i found out that it was initially caused by a service eating up all available memory. I found the related log lines, which made clear that it is caused by ...
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error: getrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE): Operation not permitted. Proftpd on Embbeded Linux enviorment

In my case the EPERM error was caused by Large Files support enabled in build configuration. It caused _FILE_OFFSET_BITS to be defined as 64 and therefore getrlimit() call became actually a ...
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