On 2019-08-06 at 11:29, Curt wrote: > On 2019-08-06, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> I tried this out myself recently, but couldn't get it to work; it >> reports that "libvirtd is installed but not running". >> >> As far as I can tell, the problem boils down to the fact that I >> refuse to have libpam-systemd installed, which means that I can't >> install policykit-1, which means that I can't install >> libvirt-daemon-system, which means libvirtd doesn't get run >> automatically. > > There's actually a bug report concerning this: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765448 Interesting. How'd you find that? It didn't crop up in my searches based on the error messages I was seeing. The parts of the discussion in that bug report which took place this year led me to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=897936 which was filed by Ian Jackson, and seems - in its way - even more on point. > Paul Floyd at the bottom hacked his way to a crude (well) solution > by modifying the dependency in /var/lib/dpkg/status on "policykit-1" > to "policykit-1 | sysvinit-core," which allowed him to install > libvirt-daemon-system. Which seems to bear out Ian's allegation, in #897936, that "It works just fine without policykit-1.". It's not a sustainable or really appropriate solution, given that it will break and have to be re-done (either by way of some complicated dance of installing and removing packages, or by manual local package build) every time a new package version gets released, but it would at least bypass the issue. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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