Jira (PUP-10016) Systemd provider is not correctly selected as the service provider if puppet is run as non root

[Andreas Ntaflos (JIRA)]

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Andreas Ntaflos commented on PUP-10016   Re: Systemd provider is not correctly selected as the service provider if puppet is run as non root Gheorghe Popescu Thank you for creating a ticket for this! Since commenting in https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-7312 I have not been able to reliably reproduce the issue I was having using Vagrant. I have created a minimal Puppet module for this at https://github.com/antaflos/puppet-foobar. On our in-house built Ubuntu 18.04 Vagrant boxes the spec tests would reliably fail with the aforementioned error message, but on the official ubuntu/bionic64 boxes (https://app.vagrantup.com/ubuntu/boxes/bionic64) the spec tests would reliably pass. I have no idea why and still cannot figure it out. Drives me crazy I am glad this issue got attention and a fix so quickly! Thanks to all involved! Not that it matters much now, and just out of curiosity: couldn't Puppet also just look at /sbin/init, much like it looked at /proc/1/exe and read the symlink target? This works for regular users, not just root. As in: confine :true => Puppet::FileSystem.exist?('/sbin/init') && Puppet::FileSystem.readlink('/sbin/init').include?('systemd') Maybe in addition to looking at /proc/1/exe, i.e.: confine :true => (Puppet::FileSystem.exist?('/proc/1/exe') && Puppet::FileSystem.readlink('/proc/1/exe').include?('systemd')) || (Puppet::FileSystem.exist?('/sbin/init') && Puppet::FileSystem.readlink('/sbin/init').include?('systemd')) Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.324178.1568121391000.104111.1568828881427%40Atlassian.JIRA.