Bug#905024: systemd: systemctl --host=... status foo.service breaks terminal without dbus

[Michael Biebl]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 20:35:32 +0200 Michael Prokop <mika at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 239-7
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> this bug report is about an issue which I consider a usability
> issue. I'm happy to forward/discuss this with upstream, though I'd
> like to discuss this within Debian and pkg-systemd team before.
> 
> When invoking:
> 
>   # systemctl --host=... status ssh.service
> 
> then the terminal kind of breaks, if dbus isn't present.
> For example if `PermitRootLogin yes` is set in sshd_config
> and trying to connect to the local system *without* dbus being
> present I get:
> 
>   root at debian-sid01:~# systemctl --host=$(hostname) status ssh.service
>   root at debian-sid01's password:
>   root at debian-sid01:~# root at debian-sid01:~#·root at debian-sid01:~#·root at debian-sid01:~#·root at debian-sid01:~#·
> 
> So whenever pressing the <enter> key the prompt gets worse (and only
> a `reset` fixes that). :) As soon as dbus is present/available it
> works as intended though.
> 
> This is quite irritating, not even getting an error/warning message.
> 
> I'm aware that dbus is inside Recommends and withouth dbus quite
> some functionality is missing, though I'm wondering if there's
> anything that could be improved here? Any opinions/ideas?


This sounds like an upstream issue, so it's probably best to raise it
there. On the other hand, dbus-less systems are considered very much
special cases by upstream, so I'm not sure how sympathetic to this issue
they will be. But you can try.

Michael

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