Bug#762041: systemd: upgrading systemd results in /run/user/<uid> being emptied

[brian m. carlson]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-4
Severity: important

I just upgraded to systemd 215-4 from whatever was in unstable as of a
couple days ago.  I then tried to sign a git commit, and got:

  vauxhall ok % git commit -sS
  
  You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
  user: "brian m. carlson <sandals at crustytoothpaste.net>"
  4096-bit RSA key, ID 1F52F68B, created 2007-05-14 (main key ID 0223B187)
  
  can't connect to `/run/user/1000/keyring/gpg': No such file or directory
  gpg: can't connect to `/run/user/1000/keyring/gpg': connect failed

And now that directory is just about empty (it was empty until some
other package's upgrade completed):

  vauxhall ok % ls -l /run/user/1000
  total 0
  drwx------ 2 bmc bmc 60 Sep 17 22:45 dconf

I had this issue on another sid system the other day where my SSH agent
disappeared, and since I rely on forwarding my SSH agent to push commits
at work, I was suddenly unable to perform any useful work until I logged
out and logged back in again.

The appropriate time to clear /run and /var/run is at boot.  systemd
should not remove (or cause to be removed) anything under /run/user at
any other time, as doing so breaks things.

For reference, after logging out and logging back in, the following
directories are available:

  vauxhall ok % ls -l /run/user/1000
  total 0
  drwx------ 2 bmc bmc  60 Sep 17 23:01 dconf
  dr-x------ 2 bmc bmc   0 Sep 17 23:00 gvfs
  drwx------ 2 bmc bmc 120 Sep 17 23:00 keyring
  drwx------ 2 bmc bmc  40 Sep 17 23:01 pulse

-- Package-specific info:

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

Kernel: Linux 3.16-trunk-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-53.4
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-2
ii  libaudit1       1:2.4-1
ii  libblkid1       2.20.1-5.8
ii  libc6           2.19-11
ii  libcap2         1:2.24-4
ii  libcap2-bin     1:2.24-4
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.6.6-1
ii  libgcrypt11     1.5.4-3
ii  libkmod2        18-1
ii  liblzma5        5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.1
ii  libselinux1     2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0     215-4
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-53.4
ii  udev            215-4
ii  util-linux      2.20.1-5.8

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.8.8-1
ii  libpam-systemd  215-4

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

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/system.conf changed:
[Manager]
LogLevel=warning
LogTarget=console


-- no debconf information

-- 
brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US
+1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only
OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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