systemctl without dbus

Hi,

I build a minimum image with mkosi with just systemd, udev as the packages and set the default target to basic.target. It works fine but I cannot shut down the system with systemctl. It complains that dbus is not available.

AFAIK, systemd implements it’s own dbus server to serve systemctl until the dbus daemon / broker starts up. Is this a regression or has something changed about the logic?

Umut