On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 14:45:18 +0100 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > Am 15.02.2016 um 08:27 schrieb Trent W. Buck: > > It's failing because dbus isn't installed. > > Installing dbus fixes the problem. > > > > systemd Recommends: dbus. > > > > dbus is Priority: standard. > > > > If a system is created with debootstrap, > > this means dbus is never installed, > > and the power button doesn't work: > > This is correct. We discussed this issue a while ago and considered > making dbus either a hard dependency or bumping its priority to > important. We decided against it, as we want a minimal debootstrapped > system to not have dbus installed.
If systemd-logind just needs dbus to check for possible inhibitors, could systemd-logind simply ignore inhibitors without dbus? Environments that make use of the inhibitor interface should necessarily have dbus installed, so without dbus installed, systemd-logind could still respond to the power button by doing an orderly shutdown. That seems like useful default behavior in a server environment. - Josh Triplett
