[PATCH] Check if systemd is the init before creating machines

[Ján Tomko <jtomko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If systemd is installed, but not the init system,
systemd-machined fails with an unhelpful error message:
Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1

Fall back to manual cgroup creation if systemd is installed,
but it's not PID 1.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69962
---

(Yes, Gentoo.)

 src/util/virsystemd.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/util/virsystemd.c b/src/util/virsystemd.c
index 8adf209..0404a63 100644
--- a/src/util/virsystemd.c
+++ b/src/util/virsystemd.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 #include "virstring.h"
 #include "viralloc.h"
 #include "virutil.h"
+#include "virfile.h"
 #include "virlog.h"
 #include "virerror.h"
 
@@ -142,6 +143,28 @@ cleanup:
     return machinename;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns 0 if systemd is the init, -2 if not
+ * -1 on fatal error
+ */
+static int
+virSystemdIsInit(void)
+{
+    char *buf = NULL;
+    int ret = -2;
+
+    if (virFileReadAll("/proc/1/comm", sizeof("systemd\n "), &buf) < 0)
+        return -1;
+
+    if (STREQ(buf, "systemd\n"))
+        ret = 0;
+    else
+        VIR_DEBUG("systemd is not the init");
+
+    VIR_FREE(buf);
+    return ret;
+}
+
 /**
  * virSystemdCreateMachine:
  * @name: driver unique name of the machine
@@ -173,6 +196,9 @@ int virSystemdCreateMachine(const char *name,
     if (ret < 0)
         return ret;
 
+    if ((ret = virSystemdIsInit()) < 0)
+        return ret;
+
     if (!(conn = virDBusGetSystemBus()))
         return -1;
 
-- 
1.8.3.2

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