On 02/04/2017 11:25 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > That said: I just tried this in a VM, and systemd appears to be > quite broken if you try to start a Type=dbus unit when DBus is > installed, but not properly configured. And while that is not > normally the case, I couldn't get systemd to work properly again > without rebooting it, not even a daemon-reexec worked. So I think > this would also qualify as a systemd bug here - it should just > fail the Type=dbus unit at this point, and not go into an endless > loop. I'll report that separately.
Ok, you can break the endless loop by stopping dbus.socket, so systemd actually works as expected here. Regards, Christian