Package: systemd Version: 215-8 Severity: important Tags: patch If the dbus package is not installed, systemd-logind.service will fail to start. dbus is currently only a recommends and priority standard, so it's not installed by a minimal base installation. The end result is, that such base installation will start in degraded mode. Another side-effect of systemd-logind failing to start is, that the getty autostart for vt2-6 is not working [1].
The failing systemd-logind.service in absence of dbus can be solved with a Condition, like in the attached patch. We would still need an answer/patch for [1] though. One proposal is, to provide an alternative getty target, which pulls in all six gettys. The alternative would be, to make dbus a hard requirement, so it's always installed. Simon McVittie voiced concerns though in making dbus mandatory. Comments welcome. [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-systemd-maintainers/2014-November/004428.html -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages systemd depends on: ii acl 2.2.52-2 ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-58 ii libacl1 2.2.52-2 ii libaudit1 1:2.4-1+b1 ii libblkid1 2.25.2-3 ii libc6 2.19-13 ii libcap2 1:2.24-6 ii libcap2-bin 1:2.24-6 ii libcryptsetup4 2:1.6.6-3 ii libgcrypt20 1.6.2-4+b1 ii libkmod2 18-3 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii libsystemd0 215-8 ii mount 2.25.2-3 ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-58 ii udev 215-8 ii util-linux 2.25.2-3 Versions of packages systemd recommends: ii dbus 1.8.12-1 ii libpam-systemd 215-8 Versions of packages systemd suggests: ii systemd-ui 3-2 -- Configuration Files: /etc/systemd/journald.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information
diff --git a/units/systemd-logind.service.in b/units/systemd-logind.service.in index c6cbd1c..ef68aa0 100644 --- a/units/systemd-logind.service.in +++ b/units/systemd-logind.service.in @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Documentation=http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/logind Documentation=http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat Wants=user.slice After=nss-user-lookup.target user.slice +ConditionFileIsExecutable=/usr/bin/dbus-daemon # Ask for the dbus socket. If running over kdbus, the socket will # not be actually used.
