Bug#914015: bus-daemon: Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed

[Simon McVittie]

Control: reassign -1 systemd

On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 15:52:39 +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> At the very end of the boot, just after the first user logs in
> (usually using sddm / X) I get the following messages in my logs:
> Nov 18 07:02:33 samd dbus-daemon[2879]: [session uid=1000 pid=2877] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1
> Nov 18 07:02:33 samd dbus-daemon[2879]: [session uid=1000 pid=2877] Activated service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1' failed: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1

These messages are caused by the "stub" service files that systemd
installs. It installed them because early versions of systemd activation
required them to exist.

Since dbus 1.11.0, a dbus-daemon that is run with --systemd-activation
automatically assumes that o.fd.systemd1 is an activatable
service. As a result, after Debian 10 'buster' is released,
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service and
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service should
become unnecessary, and they can be removed from the systemd package for
bullseye.

(Pedantically, systemd ought to have Breaks: dbus (<< 1.11.0) after that
change is made, but we don't support upgrades that skip a release.)

Thanks,
    smcv