Bug#854911: dbus fails to start on package installation on very minimal systems

[Michael Biebl]

Am 12.02.2017 um 00:39 schrieb Alexander Kurtz:
> Control: severity -1 normal
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Thanks for your quick reply! I tried to make this bug reproducible and
> eventually succeeded: The crucial point was, that the package
> installation must happen *before* systemd considers the system fully
> booted, i.e. by installing the package inside "/etc/rc.local". This
> means:
> 
>    1. This is certainly a corner case, so I have downgraded the severity
>       to "normal".
>    2. Depending on what our expectations on systemd are, this might be no
>       bug at all.
>    3. If it is a bug, it is probably not in the dbus package, but rather
>       in the init-system-helpers or systemd package.
> 
> If you (or the systemd maintainers) are interested, you can reproduce
> this bug with the attached script: Just run it as root and you should
> eventually get a login prompt. Login as root (no password required) and
> run "systemctl status dbus". The output should look like this:
> 
> 	root at shepard:~# systemctl status dbus
> 	● dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus
> 	   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
> 	   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2017-02-12 00:17:56 CET; 3min 29s ago
> 	     Docs: man:dbus-daemon(1)
> 	 Main PID: 192 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> 
> 	Feb 12 00:17:56 shepard systemd[1]: Started D-Bus System Message Bus.
> 	Feb 12 00:17:56 shepard dbus-daemon[192]: Failed to start message bus: No socket received.
> 	Feb 12 00:17:56 shepard systemd[1]: dbus.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> 	Feb 12 00:17:56 shepard systemd[1]: dbus.service: Unit entered failed state.
> 	Feb 12 00:17:56 shepard systemd[1]: dbus.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
> 	root at shepard:~# 
> 
> However, please also feel free to simply close this as NOTABUG. Thanks
> again for your quick reply!

I'm sure there are multiple interesting ways how you can break your system.
Running a installation from /etc/rc.local is imho not something we need
to support.




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