From 9c0ed82f661a2296784970678746b0b4f130870e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 14:12:30 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] core: remove support for API bus "started outside our own

 logic"

Looking at a recent Bad Day, my log contains over 100 lines of

    systemd[23895]: Failed to connect to API bus: Connection refused

It is due to "systemd --user" retrying to connect to an API bus.[*]  I

would prefer to avoid spamming the logs.  I don't think it is good for us

to retry so much like this.

systemd was mislead by something setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS.  My best

guess is an unfortunate series of events caused gdm to set this.  gdm has

code to start a session dbus if there is not a bus available already (and

in this case it exports the environment variable).  I believe it does not

normally do this when running under systemd, because "systemd --user" and

hence "dbus.service" would already have been started by pam_systemd.

I see two possibilities

1. Rip out the check for DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS entirely.

2. Only check for DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS on startup.  Not in the

   "recheck" logic.

The justification for 2), is that the recheck is called from unit_notify(),

this is used to check whether the service just started (or stopped) was

"dbus.service".  This reason for rechecking does not apply if we think

the session bus was started outside our logic.

But I think we can justify 1).  dbus-daemon ships a statically-enabled

/usr/lib/systemd/user/dbus.service, which would conflict with an attempt to

use an external dbus.  Also "systemd --user" is started from user@.service;

if you try to start it manually so that it inherits an environment

variable, it will conflict if user@.service was started by pam_systemd

(or loginctl enable-linger).

(cherry picked from commit d3243f55ca9b5f305306ba4105ab29768e372a78)

Resolves: #1764282

---

 src/core/manager.c | 5 -----

 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/core/manager.c b/src/core/manager.c

index 012615e537..3c44ad3dbc 100644

--- a/src/core/manager.c

+++ b/src/core/manager.c

@@ -1519,11 +1519,6 @@ static bool manager_dbus_is_running(Manager *m, bool deserialized) {

         if (m->test_run_flags != 0)

                 return false;

-        /* If we are in the user instance, and the env var is already set for us, then this means D-Bus is ran

-         * somewhere outside of our own logic. Let's use it */

-        if (MANAGER_IS_USER(m) && getenv("DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"))

-                return true;

-

         u = manager_get_unit(m, SPECIAL_DBUS_SOCKET);

         if (!u)

                 return false;