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The Ansible playbook does several things, but these are the ones I think are relevant to the problem:

  • creates an account for user test
  • enable lingering for that account
  • copy script to ~/bin and make service in ~/.config/systemd/user
  • systemctl --user daemon-reload
  • flush_handlers
  • enable services

It is during the enable services that I get the

Failed to get D-Bus connection: No such file or directory

The enable services command are run with:

become: yes
become_user: "{{ user }}"
environment:
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR: "/run/user/{{ uid }}"
   DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS: "unix:path=${XDG_RUNTIME_DIR}/bus"

After checking, I found that the file /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus.socket was not present. I did a touch to add it, and then I get

connection refused

What is the proper way to set up a new user and enable scripts as services on Raspbian? I am running Raspbian 4.4.50-v7 on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+.

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  • What happens when you the same sequence of commands of manually that are in the playbook? Have you tried ansible-playbook --step?
    – Mark Stosberg
    Jun 27, 2017 at 19:35
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    @MarkStosberg Thank you for your reply. both --step and doing it manually gives the same results, so I will need to investigate further into if the user account is set up correctly.
    – trippelganger
    Jun 28, 2017 at 11:26

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What worked was to install libpam-systemd as the first step of the playbook.

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