Package: systemd-resolved Version: 252.6-1 Severity: important I'd like to use systemd-resolved in my Debian live cd/usb, built with live-build. This fails, as I believe will fail any other attempt to use systemd-resolved in debootstrapped chroot environment.
Installing systemd-resolved overwrites /etc/resolv.conf with link to ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolve.conf. From systemd-resolved.postinst: echo "Converting /etc/resolv.conf to a symlink to /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf..." if [ -f "${DPKG_ROOT}/etc/resolv.conf" ]; then mv "${DPKG_ROOT}/etc/resolv.conf" "${DPKG_ROOT}/etc/.resolv.conf.systemd-resolved.bak" || echo "Cannot take a backup of /etc/resolv.conf." fi ln -sf ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf "${DPKG_ROOT}/etc/resolv.conf" || echo "Cannot install symlink from /etc/resolv.conf to ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf" This is fine, as long as systemd-resolved.service it started right away. However, when building a Debian live image or quite possibly when doing any Debian install in debootstrapped chroot environment, the service is not started. Now we are in a chroot environment, but name resolution does not work. Would it be possible to defer overwriting /etc/resolv.conf? Does it have to happen at .postinst and not at, say, at the start of the service? Example: # mkdir bootstrapped # debootstrap bookworm bootstrapped I: Target architecture can be executed I: Retrieving InRelease I: Checking Release signature I: Valid Release signature (key id A7236886F3CCCAAD148A27F80E98404D386FA1D9) I: Retrieving Packages I: Validating Packages I: Resolving dependencies of required packages... I: Resolving dependencies of base packages... I: Checking component main on http://deb.debian.org/debian... [ ... ] I: Base system installed successfully. # mount --make-private --rbind /dev bootstrapped/dev/ # mount --make-private --rbind /proc bootstrapped/proc/ # mount --make-private --rbind /sys bootstrapped/sys # chroot bootstrapped/ # ping -c 1 deb.debian.org PING deb.debian.org(2a04:4e42:8e::644 (2a04:4e42:8e::644)) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2a04:4e42:8e::644 (2a04:4e42:8e::644): icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=5.26 ms --- deb.debian.org ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 5.256/5.256/5.256/0.000 ms # apt install systemd-resolved Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done [ ...] Selecting previously unselected package systemd-resolved. Preparing to unpack .../8-systemd-resolved_252.6-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking systemd-resolved (252.6-1) ... [...] Setting up dbus (1.14.6-1) ... Running in chroot, ignoring request. Setting up systemd-resolved (252.6-1) ... Converting /etc/resolv.conf to a symlink to /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf... Creating group 'systemd-resolve' with GID 997. Creating user 'systemd-resolve' (systemd Resolver) with UID 997 and GID 997. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service → /lib/systemd/system/systemd-resolved.service. Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-resolved.service → /lib/systemd/system/systemd-resolved.service. Setting up libnss-resolve:amd64 (252.6-1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-8) ... # ping -c1 deb.debian.org ping: deb.debian.org: Name or service not known # ls -l /etc/resolv.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Mar 14 12:34 /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf # cat /etc/resolv.conf cat: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages systemd-resolved depends on: ii dbus [default-dbus-system-bus] 1.14.6-1 ii libc6 2.36-8 ii libssl3 3.0.8-1 ii libsystemd-shared 252.6-1 ii systemd 252.6-1 Versions of packages systemd-resolved recommends: ii libnss-myhostname 252.6-1 ii libnss-resolve 252.6-1 Versions of packages systemd-resolved suggests: ii policykit-1 122-3 ii polkitd 122-3 -- no debconf information