This patch makes dbus launch with any user session instead of
leaving it up to the desktop environment launch script to run it.
It has been tested with KDE, which simply uses the running daemon
instead of launching its own.
This is upstream's recommended way to run dbus.
These services don't create files on disk, let alone on a network
filesystem, so they don't really need a fixed uid. And this also gets
rid of a warning coming from <= 14.12 systems.
Specifically, this fixes dnsmasq, which failed with
Apr 16 19:00:30 mandark dnsmasq[23819]: dnsmasq: DBus error: Connection ":1.260" is not allowed to own the service "uk.org.thekelleys.dnsmasq" due to security policies in the configuration file
Apr 16 19:00:30 mandark dnsmasq[23819]: DBus error: Connection ":1.260" is not allowed to own the service "uk.org.thekelleys.dnsmasq" due to security policies in the configuration file
after being enabled, due to dbus not being reloaded.
Many bus clients get hopelessly confused when dbus-daemon is
restarted. So let's not do that.
Of course, this is not ideal either, because we end up stuck with a
possibly outdated dbus-daemon. But that issue will become irrelevant
in the glorious kdbus-based future.
Hopefully this also gets rid of systemd getting stuck after
dbus-daemon is restarted:
Apr 01 15:37:50 mandark systemd[1]: Failed to register match for Disconnected message: Connection timed out
Apr 01 15:37:50 mandark systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
Apr 01 15:37:51 mandark systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
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Using pkgs.lib on the spine of module evaluation is problematic
because the pkgs argument depends on the result of module
evaluation. To prevent an infinite recursion, pkgs and some of the
modules are evaluated twice, which is inefficient. Using ‘with lib’
prevents this problem.
[Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com>:
- use types.lines instead of types.string. The former joins strings
with "\n" and the latter with "" (and is deprecated).
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