[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#1082939: /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: unable to read virtlockd.socket

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 07:51:26PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > virtlogd and virtlockd are secondary daemons that the primary
> > libvirtd daemon might need to delegate some operations to, so it
> > makes sense that they'll be enabled/started together with it; at the
> > same time, there are scenarios in which it's valid to have just the
> > primary daemon, hence why weak dependencies are used both between
> > unit files and packages.
> > 
> > The caveat is that libvirtd.service contains Requires=virtlogd.socket
> > without a matching Depends from libvirt-daemon to libvirt-daemon-log.
> > This is an obvious bug that needs to be addressed.
> 
> This will be addressed by [1].
> 
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/libvirt-team/libvirt/-/merge_requests/237

Included in 10.9.0-2, now in experimental.

I'll go back to investigating the initial report now. My current
theory is that we need to change deb-systemd-helper so that it
behaves more like systemctl. Once I've convinced myself further, I'll
file a bug.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani <eof at kiyuko.org>
Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected.
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