On Sat, 13.12.14 10:09, Andrei Borzenkov (arvidj...@gmail.com) wrote:

> NetworkManager sets logind inhibitor lock to monitor for suspend
> events. So it implicitly requires logind to be present when NM
> starts.

Any idea what it needs the inhibitor for?

> logind is ordered after nss-user-lookup.target. If we have remote user
> database, it means that logind depends on network to be up and running.
> 
> If network is provided by NetworkManager we have a loop.
> 
> Due to the fact that NetworkManager service itself does not declare
> dependency on logind, it can be pretty hard to recognize.
> 
> Any idea how it can be solved nicely? I can only think of delaying
> inhibitor logic in NM until logind is started. Not sure what side
> effects it may have.

Yeah, I figure if they want to be able to run in early parts of boot
they should watch logind's bus name and create their inhibitor only
after it appears.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat
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