Control: reassign -1 systemd
On Sun, Mar 01, 2026 at 09:32:42AM +0100, g1 wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 3.0.3
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
>
> Before invoking dpkg to perform the work, apt-get connects to DBUS in
> order to make the seat-manager inhibit shutdowns.
>
> If you don't have systemd-logind or elogind running (because e.g. you
> were forced to install elogind as a dependency, but you disabled
> it), this hangs for 25 seconds, until dbus reports timeout on
> org.freedesktop.login1.
This sounds like a bug in systemd or dbus or something; but likely this
is not a supported system configuration.
>
> A quick and dirty workaround consists in putting
>
> DPkg::Inhibit-Shutdown "false";
>
> in a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d. I could not find references to that
> option in apt.conf(5), and had to search in the source code
> (apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc) to discover it. Therefore I kindly ask the
> developers to document it,
We are planning to introduce new documentation written in
reStructuredText. There's no need at this point to collect bug reports
about incomplete documentation; the new documentation will include
tooling to ensure completeness.
> maybe together with Binary::apt::Pager [1].
The `Pager` option is for internal use only.
Pager configuration is standardized across the ecosystem using the
PAGER and ${TOOL}_PAGER variables (PAGER, GIT_PAGER, SYSTMEMD_PAGER;
here APT_PAGER). APT implements this standard.
If we wanted paging configurable in apt.conf, it would be `APT::Pager`,
not `Pager`.
The `Binary::apt` prefix makes it apply to the apt(8) binary; this is
being phased out by a more flexible interface versioning scheme but that
is still a WIP. However the new scheme is backward compatible; existing
Binary::apt overrides continue working.
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