Before:
$ build/systemd-creds --uid=asdf
Failed to resolve user 'asdf': No such process
Now:
$ build/systemd-creds --uid=asdf
Failed to resolve user 'asdf': Unknown user
core: improve messages about unknown users and groups
$ sudo build/systemd-run --uid=asdf whoami
$ journalctl -e
(whoami)[1007784]: run-p1007782-i5200512.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process
(whoami)[1007784]: run-p1007782-i5200512.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/sbin/whoami: No such process
systemd[1]: run-p1007782-i5200512.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
systemd[1]: run-p1007782-i5200512.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Now:
(whoami)[1013204]: run-p1013202-i5205932.service: Failed to determine credentials for user 'asdf': Unknown user
(whoami)[1013204]: run-p1013202-i5205932.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/sbin/whoami: Invalid argument
systemd[1]: run-p1013202-i5205932.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
systemd[1]: run-p1013202-i5205932.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Before:
$ sudo build/systemd-run --scope --uid=asdf whoami
Failed to resolve user asdf: No such process
Now:
$ sudo build/systemd-run --scope --uid=asdf whoami
Failed to resolve user 'asdf': Unknown user
tmpfiles: improve error message for missing user/group
From a boot with a dracut initrd:
systemd-tmpfiles[242]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tpm2-tss-fapi.conf:2: Failed to resolve user 'tss': No such process
systemd-tmpfiles[242]: Failed to parse ACL "default:group:tss:rwx", ignoring: Invalid argument
systemd-tmpfiles[242]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tpm2-tss-fapi.conf:4: Failed to resolve user 'tss': No such process
systemd-tmpfiles[242]: Failed to parse ACL "default:group:tss:rwx", ignoring: Invalid argument
systemd-tmpfiles[242]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tpm2-tss-fapi.conf:6: Failed to resolve group 'tss': No such process
systemd-tmpfiles[242]: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tpm2-tss-fapi.conf:7: Failed to resolve group 'tss': No such process
udev: define a generic helper to print messages about unknown users and groups
We cannot just use %m, because strerror returns a confusing error message
for ESRCH or ENOEXEC. udev code was doing a good job, but the error handling
was very verbose. Let's encapsulate the customized error messages in a
helper.
No functional change, except that the error messages have a slightly different
form now. The old messages were a bit better, but we don't have as much
flexibility in the new scheme. "Failed to resolve user 'foo': Unknown user"
should be good enough.
Philip Withnall [Sun, 2 Nov 2025 11:34:03 +0000 (11:34 +0000)]
docs: Update MEMORY_PRESSURE to mention recent improvements in GLib
See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2931 for the changes in
GLib upstream. Using `GMemoryMonitor` is now more compliant with the
systemd recommended approach, but it needs further work to read the
recommended environment variables rather than unconditionally accessing
the per-cgroup PSI kernel file directly.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@gnome.org>
Saying "table" everywhere is not needed. Everybody can see that the table
is a table is a table. Also tweak the grammar in various places to make
reading nicer.
Pressing Fn+F10 on Acer Nitro 5 AN515-58 incorrectly triggers display
brightness down (scancode 0xef) instead of keyboard backlight control,
causing the screen to go completely dark. Similarly, Fn+F9 (scancode
0xf0) has no function explictily stated in hwdb causing unknown keycode
debug messages.
Both keys should control the keyboard backlight as labeled on the
keyboard. Map scancodes 0xef and 0xf0 to kbdillumup and kbdillumdown
respectively to enable proper keyboard backlight control.
repart: avoid label string clashes between LUKS superblocks and the filesystems on them
Let's make sure that by default /dev/disk/by-label/ symlinks avoid
ambiguities, and the LUKS volume carries a different one than the file
system inside it.
NEWS: cleanups and rewordings, extend the section about musl
I think we should make it clear that the "incomplete musl support" does not
mean that it'll for certain be completed later. The feedback from users will be
an important consideration.
Yu Watanabe [Sun, 16 Nov 2025 11:14:00 +0000 (20:14 +0900)]
log: make each string generated in log_format_iovec() NUL terminated
Nowadays, we append an extra NUL for each data if possible for safety.
We already do the same for example at write_to_kmsg(), log_do_context(),
write_to_journal(), log_struct_iovec_internal(), and so on.
This does not change any behavior, as the iov_len field is unchanged.
In a typical output from systemd-repart, the output is very wide any any wasted
space is bad because it pushes the interesting information even further to the
right. We usually need at most one or two digits to express the partition
numbers, so let's shorten the title of the column to effectively remove two
columns in the output.
In JSON output, the old field name is retained. This follows the pattern
already used for field "drop-in_files".
Also right-align the columns with numbers always to the right. I doesn't make
sense to align the columns which are only used for JSON output, so stop setting
alignment for those.
Charlie Le [Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:34:03 +0000 (08:34 -0500)]
hwdb: Add Elecom IST Pro trackball (#39762)
Added entries for the Elecom IST Pro via its three connection methods- a
USB cable, the included G1000 USB receiver, and Bluetooth.
The G1000 USB receiver _may_ have to be removed in the future depending
on the input devices that can connect to it. According to Elecom, the
receiver can have up to three different input devices connected such as
trackballs, mice, keyboards, etc. That said, as far as I can tell, the
IST Pro is the only released Elecom device that uses the receiver. The
non-pro model and the upcoming Elecom Huge Plus might use the same
receiver, but that should not matter as both devices are trackballs.
Yu Watanabe [Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:25:22 +0000 (22:25 +0900)]
cgroup-util: do not check validity of controller in cg_split_spec()
Now the controller part is always ignored, hence let's skip check for
the controller part of the spec. This also make it acceppt unnormalized
path. Previously paths were checked by path_is_normalized(), but now
checked by path_is_safe(). Also, now this mapps an empty path to NULL.
Yu Watanabe [Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:38:14 +0000 (06:38 +0900)]
tree-wide: replace cg_get_path_and_check() with cg_get_path()
We have dropped cgroup v1 support in v258. When running on cgroup v2,
cg_get_path_and_check() with SYSTEMD_CGROUP_CONTROLLER as controller is
equivalent with checking if we are running on cgroup v2 and then
cg_get_path(). As we can assume we are running on cgroup v2, then the
check is not necessary anymore, thus we can replace
cg_get_path_and_check() with cg_get_path().
Yu Watanabe [Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:32:56 +0000 (06:32 +0900)]
cgroup-util: drop cgroup v1 support from cg_pid_get_path()
We have dropped cgroup v1 support in v258. Let's drop legacy code.
Then, we can drop 'controller' argument from cg_pid_get_path() and
cg_pidref_get_path().
This adds experimental support of building systemd with musl. This
allows to build systemd with musl and run most of the unit tests.
Running integration tests is not yet supported, however. Hopefully, this
should be a good starting point to support musl.
Armin Wolf [Mon, 17 Nov 2025 03:02:28 +0000 (04:02 +0100)]
keymap: Ignore brightness keys on Dell Inspiron 3505 to avoid double events
On the Dell Inspiron 3505 both the atkbd and acpi-video input devices report
an event for pressing the brightness up / down keys, resulting in user
space seeing double events and increasing / decreasing the brightness 2 steps
for each keypress.
Fix this by adding the device to the already existing list of Dell
devices that suffer from the same problem.
Yu Watanabe [Mon, 25 Feb 2019 06:56:21 +0000 (14:56 +0800)]
musl: glob-util: filter out . and .. even if GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC is not supported
musl neither support GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC nor GLOB_BRACE.
Let's make safe_glob() work even when GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC is not supported.
Currently, GLOB_BRACE is simply ignored when it is not supported.