On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 01:34:54PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 12:48 PM Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:54:48 -0800 Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 07:52:24PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:15 PM Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> > > wrote: > > > > > Package: systemd > > > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > > > > > I installed using the Buster Alpha 4 installer, and for some reason I > > > > > ended up with a file > > > > > /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service, > > identical to > > > > > /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service. dpkg -S shows it not > > > > > owned by any package, and searching through maintainer scripts > > pointed > > > > > to systemd's postinst. systemd shouldn't install a service in /etc > > > > > identical to the one already installed in /lib. > > > > > > > > > > > > > All systemd does is enable the service. On my system that leaves a > > symlink, > > > > not a regular file. > > > > Is /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service a > > regular > > > > file or a symlink? > > > > > > It was a regular file. > > > > I don't think it's systemctl/systemd which is responsible for creating > > /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service as regular file. > > Maybe a file system issue or the result of the file being copied around. > > > > Josh, can you reproduce the issue? > > > > What happens if you remove > > /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service and run > > systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service (as we do in postinst) > > > > This is definitely not systemctl's doing: > > % sudo systemctl disable systemd-timesyncd.service > Removed /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service. > Removed /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service. > % sudo systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service > Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service > → /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service. > Created symlink > /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service → > /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service. > > Unfortunately I don't think we have enough information to act on this issue.
Feel free to close this. I don't want to do a reinstallation from scratch in a VM to attempt to reproduce this.