That situation should never arise, because if the symlink exists, then it was created by a successful boot with systemd sometime in the past; systemd's API is that it guarantees to create /etc/machine-id before running third-party code; and systemd never deletes the machine ID after it has created one.
The ideal behaviour would be for dbus-uuidgen to replace the symlink with a newly generated plain file, I think. I'd be happy to review a patch (on freedesktop.org Bugzilla please) if that isn't already what it does. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1508697 Title: dbus-uuidgen --ensure: Symlink instead of copy existing /etc/machine- id To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/1508697/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
