From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 21:03:32 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: systemctl: print a friendly message when systemctl is invoked, but PID 1 is not syste... 
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systemctl: print a friendly message when systemctl is invoked, but PID 1 is not systemd (#7318)

We only show this message when we can't talk to systemd, so that client
side install can work.

Fixes: https://bugzilla.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69962
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diff --git a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
index 670bff999c9..f8c8c318a3c 100644
--- a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
+++ b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c
@@ -216,6 +216,12 @@ static int acquire_bus(BusFocus focus, sd_bus **ret) {
 
                 user = arg_scope != UNIT_FILE_SYSTEM;
 
+                if (!user && sd_booted() <= 0) {
+                        /* Print a friendly message when the local system is actually not running systemd as PID 1. */
+                        log_error("System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.");
+                        return -EHOSTDOWN;
+                }
+
                 if (focus == BUS_MANAGER)
                         r = bus_connect_transport_systemd(arg_transport, arg_host, user, &busses[focus]);
                 else