Package: systemd Version: 257.2-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
there are currently two different files that provide a machine-id /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id /etc/machine-id is owned by systemd, and is considered a more universal source of this information. /var/lib/dbus/machine-id is owned by dbus. Unfortunately, it has happened before that these two files get out of sync and contain different information: https://bugs.debian.org/783716 https://bugs.debian.org/994096#10 https://bugs.debian.org/1040790 Even today, on a fresh debian 12 system (and in trixie too), the two files have different file modes, /etc/machine-id is 0444 and /var/lib/dbus/machine-id is 0644 The right solution to this problem is to make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id This is already behavior that is defined in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/dbus.conf but it is not enforced. Please try to get debian to agree on a single authoritative source of machine-id, in a single file with a well-known location.
