This also drop the support of /run/systemd/netif/persistent-storage-ready,
as the file is anyway removed when networkd is stopped.
Let's use $SYSTEMD_NETWORK_PERSISTENT_STORAGE_READY=1 instead on testing.
This introduces $SYSTEMD_KEYMAP_DIRECTORIES environment variable to
override the hardcoded keymap directories.
I think it is not necessary to provide the first class configuration
option for controlling the keymap directories, but it is not good to
hardcode the paths. So, let's introduce an environment variable to
override that.
Prompted by #31759.
Closes#31759.
This mirrors the existing CONTAINER_INTERFACE.md document, but describes
extension points of systemd running in a VM with a machine manager
supervising it.
Instead of running meson install and hoping for the best, let's build
distribution packages from the downstream packaging specs. This gets
us the following:
- Vastly simplified mkosi scripts since we don't need a separate initrd
image anymore but can just reuse the default mkosi initrd.
- Almost everything can move to the base image as its not the basis
anymore for the initrd and as such we don't need to care about the
size anymore.
- The systemd packages that get pulled in as dependencies of other
packages get properly uninstalled and replaced with our packages that
we built instead of just installing on top of an existing systemd
installation with no guarantee that everything from that previous
installation was removed.
- Much better testing coverage as what we're testing is much closer
to what will actually be deployed in distributions.
- Immediate feedback if something we change breaks distribution packaging
- We get integration with the distribution for free as we'll automatically
use the proper directories and such instead of having to hack this
into a mkosi build script.
- ...
Whenever a home directory is in a locked state, accessing the files of
the home directory is extremely likely to cause the thread to hang. This
will put the session in a strange state, where some threads are hanging
due to file access and others are not hanging because they are not
trying to access any of the user's files.
This can lead to a whole slew of consequences. For example, imagine a
likely situation where the Wayland compositor is not hanging, but the
user's open apps are. Eventually, the compositor will detect that none
of the apps are responding to its pings, assume that they're frozen
(which they are), and kill them. The systemd user instance can end up in
a similarly confused state and start killing user services. In the worst
case, killing an app at an unexpected moment can lead to data loss.
The solution is to suspend execution of the whole user session by
freezing the user's slice.
Previously, we'd only freeze user.slice in the case of s2h, because we
didn't want the user session to resume while systemd was transitioning
from suspend to hibernate.
This commit extends this freezing behavior to all sleep modes.
We also have an environment variable to disable the freezing behavior
outright. This is a necessary workaround for someone that has hooks
in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/ which communicate with some
process running under user.slice, or if someone is using the proprietary
NVIDIA driver which breaks when user.slice is frozen (issue #27559)
Fixes#27559
This is a kinda a follow-up for ce266330fc3bd6767451ac3400336cd9acebe9c1: it
makes resolved authoritative on our local hostname, and never contacts
DNS anymore for it.
We effectively already were authoritative for it, except if the user
queried for other RR types than just A/AAAA. This closes the gap and
refuses routing other RR type queries to DNS.
Fixes: #23662
It turns out it's mostly PKCS11 that supports the URI format,
and other engines just take files. For example the tpm2-tss-openssl
engine just takes a sealed private key file path as the key input,
and the engine needs to be specified separately.
Add --private-key-source=file|engine:foo|provider:bar to
manually specify how to use the private key parameter.
Follow-up for 0a8264080a
These will be used by display managers to pre-select the user's
preferred desktop environment and display server type. On homed, the
display manager will also be able to set these fields to cache the
user's last selection.
Most of our kernel cmdline options use underscores as word separators in
kernel cmdline options, but there were some exceptions. Let's fix those,
and also use underscores.
Since our /proc/cmdline parsers don't distinguish between the two
characters anyway this should not break anything, but makes sure our own
codebase (and in particular docs and log messages) are internally
consistent.
This reverts commit 5e8ff010a1.
This broke all the URLs, we can't have that. (And actually, we probably don't
_want_ to make the change either. It's nicer to have all the pages in one
directory, so one doesn't have to figure out to which collection the page
belongs.)
We're documenting the behavior of blob directories here. These docs
refer to things that aren't yet implemented at the time of the commit, but will be later in the same PR.
Let's make sure that versions generated by meson-vcs-tag.sh always
sort higher than official and stable releases. We achieve this by
immediately updating the meson version in meson.build after a new
release. To make sure this version always sorts lower than future
rcs, we suffix it with "~devel" which will sort lower than "~rcX".
The new release workflow is to update the version in meson.build
for each rc and the official release and to also update the version
number after a new release to the next development version.
The full version is exposed as PROJECT_VERSION_FULL and used where
it makes sense over PROJECT_VERSION.
We also switch to reading the version from a meson.version file in
the repo instead of hardcoding it in meson.build. This makes it
easier to access both inside and outside of the project.
The meson-vcs-tag.sh script is rewritten to query the version from
meson.version instead of passing it in via the command line. This
makes it easier to use outside of systemd since users don't have to
query the version themselves first.
This adds fields to the user record logic to allow a "fallback" home
directory and shell to be set as part of the "status" section of the
user record, i.e. supplied by the manager of the user record.
The idea is that if the fallback homedir/shell is set it will take
precedence over the real one in most ways.
Usecase: let's try to make ssh logins into homed directories work.
systemd-homed would set a fallback shell/homedir for inactive home dirs.
Thus, when ssh logins take place via key auth, we can allow them, and
these fallback session params would be used because the real home cannot
be activated just yet becasue we cannot acquire any password for it from
the user.
This field is like preferredLanguage, but takes a priority list of
languages instead. If an app isn't translated into a user's primary
language, it can fall back to one of the other languages in the list
thus making the app more accessible to the user.
For instance: in my experience, many Ukrainians are fluent in Russian,
often significantly better than English (especially if they are of a
generation that grew up during the USSR). Such a person might set this
new variable to ["uk_UA.UTF-8", "ru_UA.UTF-8"] so that software that
lacks Ukrainian translations will first try Russian translations before
defaulting to English.
Fixes#31290
tilde sorts lower in the version comparison spec:
https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/version_format_specification/
➜ systemd git:(strip) systemd-analyze compare-versions 249\~rc1 249
249\~rc1 < 249
➜ systemd git:(strip) systemd-analyze compare-versions 249-rc1 249
249-rc1 > 249
Also update tools/meson-vcs-tag.sh to use carets instead of hyphens
for the git part of the version as carets are allowed to be part of
a version by pacman while hyphens are not and both sort higher than
a version without the git part.
When running an image that cannot be mounted (e.g.: key missing intentionally
for development purposes), there's a retry loop that takes some time
and slows development down. Add an env var to disable it.
It silly for our docs to say that they aren't when we added support for this a
few years ago.
Also, drop some mentions of "runtime". This implied that those values can be
changed almost at will, but actually, they can only be meaningfully changed
_before_ the allocations are made.
varlink_server_listen_auto() is supposed to be the one-stop solution for
turning simple command line tools into IPC services. They aren't easy to
test/debug however, since you have to invoke them through a service
manager.
Let's make this easier: if the SYSTEMD_VARLINK_LISTEN env var is set,
let's listen on the socket specified therein. This makes things easier
to gdb: just run the service from the cmdline.
Both building and booting a directory image is much faster than
building or booting a disk image so let's default to a directory
image.
In CI, we stick to a disk image to make sure that keeps working as
well.
The only extra dependency this introduces is virtiofsd which is
packaged in all distributions except Debian stable. For users
hacking on systemd on Debian stable, a disk image can be built by
writing the following to mkosi.local.conf:
```
[Output]
Format=disk
```
To make things symmetric to the $SYSTEMD_SSH logic that the varlink
transport supports, let's also honour such a variable in sd-bus when
picking ssh transport.
This uses openssh 9.4's -W support for AF_UNIX. Unfortunately older versions
don't work with this, and I couldn#t figure a way that would work for
older versions too, would not be racy and where we'd still could keep
track of the forked off ssh process.
Unfortunately, on older versions -W will just hang (because it tries to
resolve the AF_UNIX path as regular host name), which sucks, but hopefully this
issue will go away sooner or later on its own, as distributions update.
Fedora is still stuck at 9.3 at the time of posting this (even on
Fedora), even though 9.4, 9.5, 9.6 have all already been released by
now.
Example:
varlinkctl call -j ssh:root@somehost:/run/systemd/io.systemd.Credentials io.systemd.Credentials.Encrypt '{"text":"foobar"}'
Otherwise, udev workers cannot detect slow programs invoked by
IMPORT{program}=, PROGRAM=, or RUN=, and whole worker process may be
killed.
Fixes#30436.
Co-authored-by: sushmbha <sushmita.bhattacharya@oracle.com>
Same as $KERNEL_INSTALL_BYPASS, but for hwdb. This will speed up
cross architecture image builds in mkosi as I can disable package
managers from running the costly hwdb update stuff in qemu user
mode and run it myself with a native systemd-hwdb with --root=.
Now that mkosi-kernel is a thing, this logic in systemd is just mostly
bitrotting since I just use mkosi-kernel these days. If I ever need to
hack on systemd and the kernel in tandem, I'll just add support for
building systemd to mkosi-kernel instead, so let's drop the support for
building a custom kernel in systemd's mkosi configuration.
This code doesn't link when gcc+lld is used:
$ LDFLAGS=-fuse-ld=lld meson setup build-lld && ninja -C build-lld udevadm
...
ld.lld: error: src/shared/libsystemd-shared-255.a(libsystemd-shared-255.a.p/cryptsetup-util.c.o):
symbol crypt_token_external_path@@ has undefined version
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
As a work-around, restrict it to developer mode.
Closes https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/30218.
- Use mkosi.images/ instead of mkosi.presets/
- Use the .chroot suffix to run scripts in the image
- Use BuildSources= match for the kernel build
- Move 10-systemd.conf to mkosi.conf and rely on mkosi.local.conf
for local configuration
don't let the devices to be announced just as model "Linux". Let's instead
propagate the underlying block device's model. Also do something
reasonably smart for the serial and firmware version fields.
Introduce a new env variable $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_CHECK_OS_RELEASE, that can
be used to disable the os-release check for bootable OS trees. Useful
when trying to boot a container with empty /etc/ and bind-mounted /usr/.
Resolves: #29185
I tried to get something similar upstream:
https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/issues/846
But no luck, it was suggested I use ELF interposition instead. Hence,
let's do so (but not via ugly LD_PRELOAD, but simply by overriding the
relevant symbol natively in our own code).
This makes debugging tokens a ton easier.
Automatically softreboot if the nextroot has been set up with an OS
tree, or automatically kexec if a kernel has been loaded with kexec
--load.
Add SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_AUTO_KEXEC and SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_AUTO_SOFT_REBOOT to
skip the automated switchover.
Instead of using ExtraTrees=, let's use the new RuntimeTrees= option
to mount the full repository into the VM/container. Let's also store
the sources under /usr/src/systemd and update the gdbinit file and
vscode HACKING guide section to match the new location.
Currently we have a 100ms delay which allows for people to enter/show
the boot menu even when timeout is set to zero.
In a handful of cases, that may not be needed - both in terms of access
policy, as well as latency.
For example: the option to provide the boot menu may be hidden behind an
"expert only" UX in the OS, to avoid end users from accidentally
entering it.
In addition, the current 100ms input polling may cause unexpected
additional delays in the boot. Some example numbers from my SteamDeck:
- boot counting/rename/flush doubles 300us -> 600us
- seed/hash setup doubles 900us -> 1800us
- kernel/image load gets ~40% slower 107ms -> 167ms
It's not entirely clear why the UEFI calls gets slower, nevertheless the
information in itself proves useful.
This commit introduces a new option "menu-disabled", which omits the
100ms delay. The option is documented throughout the manual pages as
well as the Boot Loader Specification.
v2:
- use STR_IN_SET
v3:
- drop erroneous whitespace
v4:
- add a new LoaderFeature bit,
- don't change ABI keep TIMEOUT_* tokens the same
- move new token in the 64bit range, update API and storage for it
- change inc/dec behaviour to TIMEOUT_MIN : TIMEOUT_MENU_FORCE
- user cannot opt-in from sd-boot itself, add assert_not_reached()
v5:
- s/Menu disablement control/Menu can be disabled/
- rewrap comments to 109
- use SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EOPNOTSUPP)
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
To be on the safe side, explicitly mention that apart from the numerical
entries we can allow string ones.
Implementation-wise, bootctl will use internal numerical values that
match sd-boot's ABI. The latter also accepts the string options.
Going forward we'd like to avoid adding more internal magic and be more
explicit.
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Currently we spawn services by forking a child process, doing a bunch
of work, and then exec'ing the service executable.
There are some advantages to this approach:
- quick: we immediately have access to all the enourmous amount of
state simply by virtue of sharing the memory with the parent
- easy to refactor and add features
- part of the same binary, will never be out of sync
There are however significant drawbacks:
- doing work after fork and before exec is against glibc's supported
case for several APIs we call
- copy-on-write trap: anytime any memory is touched in either parent
or child, a copy of that page will be triggered
- memory footprint of the child process will be memory footprint of
PID1, but using the cgroup memory limits of the unit
The last issue is especially problematic on resource constrained
systems where hard memory caps are enforced and swap is not allowed.
As soon as PID1 is under load, with no page out due to no swap, and a
service with a low MemoryMax= tries to start, hilarity ensues.
Add a new systemd-executor binary, that is able to receive all the
required state via memfd, deserialize it, prepare the appropriate
data structures and call exec_child.
Use posix_spawn which uses CLONE_VM + CLONE_VFORK, to ensure there is
no copy-on-write (same address space will be used, and parent process
will be frozen, until exec).
The sd-executor binary is pinned by FD on startup, so that we can
guarantee there will be no incompatibilities during upgrades.
Let's mention that we just need the latest stable release of mkosi,
not the latest git commit. We also split the instructions for building
on the host and the instructions for building with mkosi into two blocks,
as it's not required to build on the host anymore to build with mkosi.
On normal systems, triggering a timeout should be a bug in code or
configuration error, so I do not think we should extend the default
timeout. Also, we should not introduce a 'first class' configuration
option about that. But, making it configurable may be useful for cases
such that "an extremely highly utilized system (lots of OOM kills,
very high CPU utilization, etc)".
Closes#25441.
The tool initially just measured the boot phase, but was subsequently
extended to measure file system and machine IDs, too. At AllSystemsGo
there were request to add more, and make the tool generically
accessible.
Hence, let's rename the binary (but not the pcrphase services), to make
clear the tool is not just measureing the boot phase, but a lot of other
things too.
The tool is located in /usr/lib/ and still relatively new, hence let's
just rename the binary and be done with it, while keeping the unit names
stable.
While we are at it, also move the tool out of src/boot/ and into its own
src/pcrextend/ dir, since it's not really doing boot related stuff
anymore.
ispell made some suggestions which I applied.
Addresses: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29209#pullrequestreview-1632623460
Also adds a brief paragraph about initrd transitions. (Plymouth really
should start using the fdstore for pinning DRM objects, and stop trying
to survive the initrd→host transition)
