On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 at 15:08, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > > Am 30.06.22 um 14:26 schrieb Michael Biebl: > > This might be a bug in i-s-h, but filing against systemd-homed for > > now. > > > > systemd-homed.service: > > [Install] > > WantedBy=multi-user.target > > Alias=dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service > > Also=systemd-homed-activate.service systemd-userdbd.service > > > > systemd-homed-activate.service: > > [Install] > > WantedBy=systemd-homed.service > > Also=systemd-homed.service > > > > → we have a circular dependency here, maybe deb-systemd-helper get's > > confused by that > > > I just checked that we can mitigate this issue by removing this circular > Also= dependency. It is indeed deb-systemd-helper getting confused by > that and as a result not writing proper state files to > /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper. > So the damage is already done during installation in postinst. > Thus raising to RC to warn users from installing systemd-homed atm. > > I propose a patch like the attached one, i.e. dropping the Also= from > systemd-homed-active.service. WDYT? > > I've also cloned the issue for i-s-h, as we might want to fix that > properly. My perl is a bit rusty, so would appreciate help with that. > > @bluca: do you think the attached patch is suitable for upstream? > > I find this circular Also= dependency kinda odd, I have to admit.
I don't think so, this seems clearly a bug in i-s-h. Ideally we should really drop all of that and just use presets as RPMs do... but it's a lot of work. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
