On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM Umut Tezduyar Lindskog < umut.tezdu...@axis.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > > > I build a minimum image with mkosi with just systemd, udev as the packages > and set the default target to basic.target. It works fine but I cannot shut > down the system with systemctl. It complains that dbus is not available. > > > > AFAIK, systemd implements it’s own dbus server to serve systemctl until > the dbus daemon / broker starts up. Is this a regression or has something > changed about the logic? > It uses a peer-to-peer dbus socket – i.e. not so much a 'dbus server' but a direct unix socket that happens to speak the dbus protocol. This is placed at /run/systemd/private and is restricted to root only (it doesn't support polkit-based authorization). Systemctl's bus_connect_transport_systemd() won't even try connecting to it when running as a different user than root. -- Mantas Mikulėnas
