Package: systemd
Version: 246-2
Updating systemd to 246-2 leaves systemd-logind.service from 245-* which breaks
certain operations.
One such example is, (assuming user foo): loginctl enable-linger foo. Without
restarting systemd-logind.service this command fails with the following error:
Aug 06 17:08:06 aug061652-827018 systemd-user-runtime-dir[28557]: Failed to
acquire number of inodes for runtime directory: Unknown interface
org.freedesktop.login1.Manager or property RuntimeDirectoryInodesMax.
Looking at the systemd.postinst script I can see that systemd-logind is not
restarted on purpose, referencing upstream systemd bug
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1163. This bug is closed now so I
suspect the proper action is to simply restart systemd-logind.service. I've
attached a crude patch with that change.
--- /var/lib/dpkg/info/systemd.postinst 2020-08-03 09:46:27.000000000 +0200
+++ systemd.postinst 2020-08-06 19:33:31.845505560 +0200
@@ -114,8 +114,7 @@
if [ -n "$2" ]; then
_systemctl daemon-reexec || true
- # don't restart logind; this can be done again once this gets implemented:
- # https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1163
+ _systemctl try-restart systemd-logind.service || true
_systemctl try-restart systemd-networkd.service || true
_systemctl try-restart systemd-resolved.service || true
_systemctl try-restart systemd-journald.service || true
