(In reply to Marcus Meissner from comment #17) Check the clocks! Beside this on the local (virtual) console or a local X session the STATE is active whereas it is not via ssh/slogin: /suse/werner> grep STATE /run/systemd/users/`id -u` STATE=active logout ... slogin <test> <test> /suse/werner> grep STATE /run/systemd/users/`id -u` STATE=online