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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 25.12.2014 um 23:55 schrieb 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.
> 

The reason afaics for requiring namespaces are the use of

PrivateTmp=yes
PrivateDevices=yes
PrivateNetwork=yes
ProtectSystem=yes

in /lib/systemd/system/systemd-localed.service

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