Re: [PATCH 2/2] Report better error message in remoteGetUNIXSocket

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:49:23AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 05:44:59AM -0500, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:09:36AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > Why is it exactly that the socket doesn't work after installation, but > > > does work after reboot? On my laptop, the socket unit is set to > > > "disabled", yet libvirt works fine (since the laptop has been rebooted > > > since libvirt was installed, I guess). Shouldn't the command be > > > "systemctl enable virtqemud.socket --now"? > > > > It's a distro policy. > > > > I assume you're running Fedora/RHEL on your laptop, and the policy > > there is that services (or sockets) should not be started right after > > a package is installed. Debian has the opposite policy. > > I think this is a very weird choice (for Fedora). Why would > installing the package not start the service, but then the service > would be started without further intervention after reboot? It's the > opposite of predictable behaviour. I believe that the rationale is that a newly-installed service might need to be configured before it can work correctly/securely. Not starting it right away provides a temporal window that can be used to perform the initial configuration, and which is entirely under the local admin's control.

-- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization