New comment by daniel-eys on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/20051#issuecomment-599148013 Comment: Interesting, so lightdm caused this. Looking at `/etc/pam.d/lightdm`, lightdm seems to delegate pam to `pam_elogind.so` (?), but I don't really know where/when/how elogind sets limits for its sessions. One workaround would be to explicitly load `pam_limits` (the pam module responsible for setting resource limits) by adding `session required pam_limits.so` to `/etc/pam.d/lightdm`, like so: ``` ... # Setup session session required pam_unix.so session required pam_limits.so -session optional pam_elogind.so -session optional pam_ck_connector.so nox11 ``` So with this added, you could actually continue using lightdm. @VoidDuck