[chiark.chat] Re: RFH: sysvinit etc. in Debian

[Mark Hindley]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:01:12PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:37:15PM +0100, Lorenz wrote:
> >    Hi Ian, Mark
> >    I'm switching to your packaging and i've spotted few issues, althought
> >    i'm a bit in a rush so i may be wrong (forgive me in that case)
> >    * you are starting elogind twice each boot, first with dbus and than
> >    with a sysv script, you're not catching this with 'log_end_msg' because
> >    the second instance of       elogind print a message but exit 0. This
> >    is not a problem for sysv but it is with runit, it will keep restarting
> >    elogind forever (twice per second)
> >        For me, having a 'Exec=/sbin/false' in
> >    /usr/share/dbus-1/system-service/org.freedesktop.login1.service is
> >    working.
> 
> Yes, I have just noticed that this afternoon too.

Does restoring Exec=/usr/sbin/elogind in the dbus login1.service file but
diabling the initscript work as well?

I am unclear why the initscript is there. It isn't in upstream. Andreas must
have used it for a reason --  maybe dbus activation was failing???

Thanks for your report.

Mark