Public bug reported: Using systemd --user for several user-level services. Upgraded to 25.04 yesterday and noticed an issue today. Sometimes systemctl --user commands, threw a "Connection refused", which was new to me.
Example: user@host:~$ systemctl --user daemon-reload Failed to connect to user scope bus via local transport: Connection refused So I went to look online and found this workaround in this thread for Arch ( https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=302556 ): unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR systemctl --user daemon-reexec I know it's a different distro, but still wanted to mention it, especially since we're also using systemd 257 and this should be fixed in 258. The mentioned upstream bugreport: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/36540 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.04 Package: systemd 257.4-1ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.14.0-15.15-generic 6.14.0 Uname: Linux 6.14.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.32.0-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CloudArchitecture: x86_64 CloudID: none CloudName: none CloudPlatform: none CloudSubPlatform: config CurrentDesktop: sway Date: Fri May 16 15:49:11 2025 InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-05-14 (1098 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220421) MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M. ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.14.0-15-generic root=/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv ro SourcePackage: systemd SystemdFailedUnits: Error: command ['systemctl', 'status', '--full', '●'] failed with exit code 4: Invalid unit name "●" escaped as "\xe2\x97\x8f" (maybe you should use systemd-escape?). Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service could not be found. ------ Error: command ['systemctl', 'status', '--full', '●'] failed with exit code 4: Invalid unit name "●" escaped as "\xe2\x97\x8f" (maybe you should use systemd-escape?). Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service could not be found. UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to plucky on 2025-05-15 (1 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 08/21/2024 dmi.bios.release: 5.17 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends International, LLC. dmi.bios.version: L3.47 dmi.board.name: B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ax dmi.board.vendor: ASRock dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInternational,LLC.:bvrL3.47:bd08/21/2024:br5.17:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASRock:rnB550PhantomGaming-ITX/ax:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:skuToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.family: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.sku: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. modified.conffile..etc.logrotate.d.apport: [modified] modified.conffile..etc.systemd.journald.conf: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.logrotate.d.apport: 2023-01-22T12:04:04.279288 mtime.conffile..etc.systemd.journald.conf: 2022-08-13T22:29:21.911636 ** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug plucky wayland-session -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2111107 Title: systemd user scope fails to connect To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/2111107/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
