yocto@lists.yoctoproject.org | Disable systemd-timesyncd.service in image

Damien LEFEVRE

#51532

Hi,

I would like to have systemd-timesyncd.service as part of an image but have it disabled by default.

Right now it is enabled by default which causes some issues.

I've tried systemd_%.bbappend

do_install_append() {

rm "$D/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service"

rm "$D/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service"

}

but those symlinks are not part of the package.

I've tried this to remove the link during the package deployment during do_rootfs

pkg_postinst_${PN}_append() {
#!/bin/sh -e
rm "$D/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service"
rm "$D/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service"
}

But at this stage the links still don't exist.

Which package is actually responsible for enabling the default services / creating the symlinks? How can we turn some of them off while keeping them in the image?

Thanks,

-Damien

Joel A Cohen

#51533

I think you need to set SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = “disable” (actually any value other than “enable”) in your bbappend.

(It looks like SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN} is intended to work too, but I can’t verify it at the moment and reading over systemd.bbclass I’m not sure if it works or not)

—Aaron

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:51 AM Damien LEFEVRE <lefevre.da@...> wrote:

Hi,

I would like to have systemd-timesyncd.service as part of an image but have it disabled by default.

Right now it is enabled by default which causes some issues.

I've tried systemd_%.bbappend

do_install_append() {
rm "$D/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service"
rm "$D/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service"
}

but those symlinks are not part of the package.

I've tried this to remove the link during the package deployment during do_rootfs
pkg_postinst_${PN}_append() {
#!/bin/sh -e
rm "$D/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service"
rm "$D/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service"
}

But at this stage the links still don't exist.

Which package is actually responsible for enabling the default services / creating the symlinks? How can we turn some of them off while keeping them in the image?

Thanks,
-Damien

Konrad Weihmann <kweihmann@...>

#51534

The service is deployed with standard systemd package, which doesn't have that set as far as I see it (no SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN} in the latest recipe revision)

I think, after browsing through the code of systemd - this "autostart" behavior comes from [1].
So I would say you can disable it with a drop-in file at
/etc/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d/disable.conf
[Install]
WantedBy=

which also would be charming in a way that it isn't that invasive in the build system

[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5b639090d0b4a49d77ba58bebe180b2a6f8da322/units/systemd-timesyncd.service.in#L55

haven't tested it though, but you might wanna give that a shot, if Aaron's approach doesn't work.

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On 23.11.20 21:21, Joel A Cohen wrote:
I think you need to set SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = “disable” (actually any value other than “enable”) in your bbappend.
(It looks like SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN} is intended to work too, but I can’t verify it at the moment and reading over systemd.bbclass I’m not sure if it works or not)
—Aaron
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:51 AM Damien LEFEVRE <lefevre.da@... <mailto:lefevre.da@...>> wrote:
Hi,
I would like to have systemd-timesyncd.service as part of an image
    but have it disabled by default.
Right now it is enabled by default which causes some issues.
I've tried systemd_%.bbappend
do_install_append() {
         rm "$D/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service"
         rm
    "$D/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service"
    }
but those symlinks are not part of the package.
I've tried this to remove the link during the package deployment
    during do_rootfs
    pkg_postinst_${PN}_append() {
         #!/bin/sh -e
         rm "$D/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service"
         rm
    "$D/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service"
    }
But at this stage the links still don't exist.
Which package is actually responsible for enabling the default
    services / creating the symlinks? How can we turn some of them off
    while keeping them in the image?
Thanks,
    -Damien

Damien LEFEVRE

#51539

Yes SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN} doesn't apply to systemd recipe core services as they are not installed as separate packages.

But I got it working now.

The default enable/disable service are defined in https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/presets/90-systemd.preset

So

do_configure_append() {
sed -i -e "s/enable systemd-timesyncd.service/disable systemd-timesyncd.service/g" ${S}/presets/90-systemd.preset
}

does the trick

Cheers,

-Damien

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:42 PM Konrad Weihmann <kweihmann@...> wrote:

The service is deployed with standard systemd package, which doesn't
have that set as far as I see it (no SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN} in the
latest recipe revision)

I think, after browsing through the code of systemd - this "autostart"
behavior comes from [1].
So I would say you can disable it with a drop-in file at
/etc/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d/disable.conf
[Install]
WantedBy=

which also would be charming in a way that it isn't that invasive in the
build system

[1]
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5b639090d0b4a49d77ba58bebe180b2a6f8da322/units/systemd-timesyncd.service.in#L55

haven't tested it though, but you might wanna give that a shot, if
Aaron's approach doesn't work.

On 23.11.20 21:21, Joel A Cohen wrote:
> I think you need to set SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = “disable” (actually any
> value other than “enable”) in your bbappend.
>
> (It looks like SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE_${PN} is intended to work too, but I
> can’t verify it at the moment and reading over systemd.bbclass I’m not
> sure if it works or not)
>
> —Aaron
>
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:51 AM Damien LEFEVRE <lefevre.da@...
> <mailto:lefevre.da@...>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to have systemd-timesyncd.service as part of an image
> but have it disabled by default.
>
> Right now it is enabled by default which causes some issues.
>
> I've tried systemd_%.bbappend
>
> do_install_append() {
> rm "$D/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service"
> rm
> "$D/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service"
> }
>
> but those symlinks are not part of the package.
>
> I've tried this to remove the link during the package deployment
> during do_rootfs
> pkg_postinst_${PN}_append() {
> #!/bin/sh -e
> rm "$D/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service"
> rm
> "$D/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service"
> }
>
> But at this stage the links still don't exist.
>
> Which package is actually responsible for enabling the default
> services / creating the symlinks? How can we turn some of them off
> while keeping them in the image?
>
> Thanks,
> -Damien
>
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>
>
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