[gentoo-user] Start conflict "elogind" vs "fwupd"

[Dr Rainer Woitok]

Greetings,

since my last routine Gentoo upgrade on 2021-02-01  "fwupd" is no longer
started in the "default" run level.   Reason is that "fwupd" erroneously
thinks its prerequisite "elogind"  is not yet running,  starts it again,
interprets the  error message  "already started"  and the  non-zero exit
code as "not startable",  and gives in.   In order  to allow  "fwupd" to
start" I had to  -- temporarily --  remove the "elogind" prerequisite in
file "/etc/init.d/fwupd".

Did anybody else observe this behaviour?  Is this a known problem?

Sincerely,
  Rainer