Bug#770644: systemd: can't start dbus if dbus is not running

[brian m. carlson]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-6
Severity: important

I'm trying to start strongswan:

  castro ok % sudo service strongswan start
  Failed to get D-Bus connection: No such file or directory

Okay:

  castro ok # systemctl start dbus
  Failed to get D-Bus connection: No such file or directory

So I start dbus by hand (à la /etc/init.d/dbus), and:

  castro ok # service dbus restart
  Failed to restart dbus.service: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
  castro ok # service freeradius restart
  Failed to restart freeradius.service: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
  castro ok # sudo telinit u
  Failed to execute operation: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1

Perhaps systemctl needs to learn a non-dbus way to talk to systemd.
telinit should be using signals, not dbus, to signal init.

systemd also does not fix itself even after receiving a SIGHUP, SIGUSR1,
or SIGTERM.

Is there a technique I can use to get my system in an operational state
without rebooting it?

The below info is not accurate because this is not being run on the
affected machine.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.17-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl             2.2.52-2
ii  adduser         3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts     2.88dsf-58
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4-1
ii  libblkid1       2.25.2-3
ii  libc6           2.19-13
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-6
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-6
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-3
ii  libgcrypt20     1.6.2-4
ii  libkmod2        18-3
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b1
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0     215-6
ii  mount           2.25.2-3
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-58
ii  udev            215-6
ii  util-linux      2.25.2-3

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.10-1
ii  libpam-systemd  215-6

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/system.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

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