Re: [OE-core] [PATCH v2 2/3] dbus: use the systemd class to handle the unit files

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Mon Aug 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM CEST, Ross Burton via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> Originally, the dbus recipe couldn't use the systemd class because there
> was a circular dependency between systemd and dbus.
>
> However, since systemd v209 in 2014[1] systemd hasn't needed libdbus, as
> it has it's own implementation of the client library. DBus does not use
> the systemd libraries, so there is no circular dependency.
>
> The dbus build was already was installing the service and socket files,
> so we are installing them again. Remove the installation of the units.
>
> Manually mask dbus-1.service by simply creating a symlink, instead of
> depending on systemctl and using an postinstall script.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
>
> [1] dbus: 718db96199 ("core: convert PID 1 to libsystemd-bus")
> ---

Hi Ross,

I suspect this patch is the source of this error:

ERROR: dbus-1.16.2-r0 do_install: Execution of '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/musl-qemux86-64/build/build/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux-musl/dbus/1.16.2/temp/run.do_install.976229' failed with exit code 1
...
| ln: failed to create symbolic link '/srv/pokybuild/yocto-worker/musl-qemux86-64/build/build/tmp/work/core2-64-poky-linux-musl/dbus/1.16.2/image/lib/systemd/system/dbus-1.service': No such file or directory

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/3/builds/2216
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/2/builds/2177
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/valkyrie/#/builders/11/builds/2139

Can you have a look, please?

-- 
Mathieu Dubois-Briand, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com