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

[Michael Biebl]

Am 08.04.2015 um 12:45 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 12:38:29PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> That's it!
> 
> I don't currently have systemd-shim, but apparently I did have it
> installed in the past (not sure why), and it's conffiles were indeed
> still around.
> 
> "dpkg --purge systemd-shim" fixed the problem.
> 
> Not sure how to avoid other users fall into this issue though.

For reference, this is the relevant systemd-shim bug report:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765101

The systemd-shim package first tried to sync the D-Bus policy file
changes in 8-3, but then agreed that it was better to simply drop the
D-Bus policy file, to avoid having it being outdated/out-of-sync again.
This happened in version 8.4.

Users dist-upgrading from wheezy won't run into this issue. Same for
users, which kept systemd-shim installed in sid and upgraded to the
newer version.

I'm afraid there isn't a lot we can do about that (in systemd) and I'm
inclined to close the bug report. Do you agree?

Michael

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