Right, you can't sensibly stop dbus on a running desktop. This will kill all sessions, kill lightdm, etc. and toss you back to consoles (Ctrl+Alt+FN actually still works).
** Package changed: systemd (Ubuntu) => ubuntu ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1623198 Title: Masking and then disabling dbus.service causes the system to freeze Status in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: I'm using Ubuntu 16.10 dev with systemd-sysv 231-6 and if I'm executing the command "systemctl mask dbus.service" and then "systemctl stop dbus.service" the system does freeze after a few seconds (even switching to the console is not possible anymore). But booting then the system works fine without any freezes while dbus got successfully disabled. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1623198/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp