On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 13:38 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 13:30:49 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > If libnss-systemd is in the critical path for the equivalent of > > `getent hosts messagebus` > > I meant `getent passwd messagebus` of course.
systemd sets an environment variable to make dbus not use libnss- systemd: +--- | /* If this is D-Bus, tell the nss-systemd module, since it relies on being able to use D-Bus look up dynamic | * users via PID 1, possibly dead-locking the dbus daemon. This way it will not use D-Bus to resolve names, but | * check the database directly. */ | if (p->flags & EXEC_NSS_BYPASS_BUS) { | x = strdup("SYSTEMD_NSS_BYPASS_BUS=1"); +--- Maybe sysv-rc should do something similar? Ansgar