Bug#782134: systemctl TAB-completion for unit names does not work when not root

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Zack!

Am 08.04.2015 um 12:26 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli:

> When as non root, I do this:
> 
>   $ systemctl start l<TAB>
> 
> I get this error:
> 
>   Failed to list units: Access denied
> 
> and TAB completion fail to complete. ("l" is just a sample prefix, TAB
> completion for unit names doesn't work with any prefix, including the empty
> one.)
> 
> OTOH it works fine as root.
> 
> After a brief discussion on #debian-devel, it seems that the above works for
> others, using the same version of systemd. So it might be specific to my
> system, but AFAICT I haven't customized systemd in any way, so I don't know
> what might be causing it.
> 

Do you have systemd-shim installed or had it installed in the past
without purging it?
I remember an old bug report where the dbus policy shipped by
systemd-shim broke systemd.

Can you attach the output of ls -la /etc/dbus-1/system.d


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