Comment 27 for bug 1438612

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In , Simon McVittie (smcv) wrote :

(In reply to Simon McVittie from comment #6)
> Unfortunately, "systemctl restart dbus" (which was never supported either)
> will now start a second dbus-daemon in parallel with the first

I think that's unacceptable.

(In reply to Lennart Poettering from comment #12)
> If at all, use RefuseManualStop=yes on the unit, but I don't like that much
> either.

I don't think this would satisfy the original requirement unless the ExecStop=/bin/true was also included, and you've said that that's undesired.

> Please do not apply that ExecStop= thing. You really shouldn't block that.

Fair enough. NOTOURBUG then.

> The best way is to fix the few services that really need dbus
> unconditionally to be around to add After=dbus.service. And all is good.

OK. In the case of the original bug report, I think this means wpasupplicant and maybe NetworkManager would have to either turn off exit-on-disconnect (for libdbus and/or GDBus, depending which they use), or be After=dbus.service.