units: allow io.systemd.Hostname to be available earlier

Currently the varlink interface for hostname is only available
after sysinit. This means it is not available until systemd-firstboot
is finished. But there is information like the boot-id in there that
is useful to get early.

My use-case is to query the system early via the varlink-http-bridge
and currently I can't get data from io.systemd.Hostname until
systemd-firstboot is completed which is a bit limiting.

So to fix it this commit sets DefaultDependencies=no on both the socket
and service units.

It also changes hostnamed.c to use
bus_open_system_watch_bind_with_description() which means we will
reconnect once dbus is available. This mimics what resolved-bus.c
is doing (and which was originally introduced in d7afd945b).

Thanks to Lennart for pointing this out.
This commit is contained in:
Michael Vogt
2026-03-20 10:04:26 +01:00
committed by Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
parent abb03c7c9d
commit 55356a7821
3 changed files with 7 additions and 1 deletions
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@@ -1964,7 +1964,7 @@ static int connect_bus(Context *c) {
assert(c->event);
assert(!c->bus);
r = sd_bus_default_system(&c->bus);
r = bus_open_system_watch_bind_with_description(&c->bus, "bus-api-hostname");
if (r < 0)
return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to get system bus connection: %m");
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@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ Documentation=man:systemd-hostnamed.service(8)
Documentation=man:hostname(5)
Documentation=man:machine-info(5)
Documentation=man:org.freedesktop.hostname1(5)
DefaultDependencies=no
Conflicts=shutdown.target
Before=shutdown.target
[Service]
Type=notify
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@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ Description=Hostname Service Socket
Documentation=man:systemd-hostnamed.service(8)
Documentation=man:hostname(5)
Documentation=man:machine-info(5)
DefaultDependencies=no
Conflicts=shutdown.target
Before=shutdown.target sockets.target
[Socket]
ListenStream=/run/systemd/io.systemd.Hostname