Bug#773932: systemd-localed fails unless CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y

[Jamie Heilman]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-8
Severity: normal

Apparently systemd-localed depends on having namespace support in the
kernel.  It isn't immediately obvious to me why there is no graceful
fallback approach.  The manual page for systemd-localed doesn't call
out this dependancy, and while I knew systemd-nspawn would have
namespace requirements, this dependancy caught me by surprise:

dbus[382]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.locale1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.locale1.service'
systemd[1]: Couldn't stat device /dev/pts/ptmx
systemd[568]: Failed at step NETWORK spawning /lib/systemd/systemd-localed: Invalid argument
systemd[1]: systemd-localed.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=225/NETWORK
systemd[1]: Failed to start Locale Service.
systemd[1]: Unit systemd-localed.service entered failed state.

Unless there's some really good reason that systemd-localed shouldn't
be usable on a system without namespaces, then I'm gonna say this is a
bug.

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Jamie Heilman                     http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/