Re: systemd enables custom service units on firstboot

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Dear Martin,


Am 29.04.23 um 16:12 schrieb Martin Petzold:

we are building our OS with debootstrap (Debian bullseye). Our image shall be flashed on embedded devices. In order to get a unique machine-id we removed '/etc/machine-id' as instructed in [1] and also removed '/var/lib/dbus/machine-id' as instructed in [2]) from the golden image.

After we flash the image and boot it, new machine-ids are created and identical.

However, now we realized that some of our systemd service units added to '/lib/systemd/system' are enabled and starting on boot. We did not enable them, we just copied them to that location at the end of our rootfs build. They are just there to be used in some special test cases.

We already checked '/lib/systemd/system-preset/*'. But there is only a single file '90-systemd.preset' and there is no rule which matches our service units.

1. Why are our service units placed in '/lib/systemd/system' enabled?
2. What actually happens during firstboot?

Sorry, you provide not enough information.

Please provide an example `systemctl status X` and `systemctl cat X` for service X, that is started but does not. Does that happen with all services you add?

Please enable debug logs by for example adding `debug` to the Linux command line.

Related 3. If we do A/B rootfs updates could there be any problems if a new machine-id is created on each (sys)update?

I recommend to start a separate thread for this question.


Kind regards,

Paul


Platform:

systemd 252.5-2~bpo11+1 (from bullseye-backports)
systemd-resolved and systemd-networkd with iwd (all from bullseye-backports)
Custom Debian bullseye (with some packages from bullseye-backports)
Custom Kernel 5.10
U-Boot

[1] https://systemd.io/BUILDING_IMAGES/
[2] https://wiki.debian.org/MachineId



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