manager: use reboot.target as the default for ctrl-alt-del.target

systemd tries to start ctrl-alt-del.target after receiving a request
to reboot in a container (or when ctrl-alt-del is pressed on a real
machine). If the alias is missing, this will fail. Let's provide a
fallback for this too. I don't think it makes sense to make it
configurable: it seems almost everybody is fine with the default
mapping. If not, people can always just create the symlink in the
filesystem.
This commit is contained in:
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
2026-07-02 17:19:18 +02:00
parent 2e4ef3dca5
commit 83e4074af1
2 changed files with 14 additions and 3 deletions
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@@ -110,6 +110,9 @@
#define SPECIAL_SIGPWR_TARGET "sigpwr.target"
#define SPECIAL_CTRL_ALT_DEL_TARGET "ctrl-alt-del.target"
/* The unit to use as fallback if ctrl-alt-del.target (which is usually an alias) cannot be loaded. */
#define FALLBACK_CTRL_ALT_DEL_TARGET "reboot.target"
/* Where we add all our system units, users and machines by default */
#define SPECIAL_SYSTEM_SLICE "system.slice"
#define SPECIAL_USER_SLICE "user.slice"
+11 -3
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@@ -3220,10 +3220,10 @@ turn_off:
return 0;
}
static void manager_start_special(Manager *m, const char *name, JobMode mode) {
static void manager_start_special_with_fallback(Manager *m, const char *name, const char *fallback, JobMode mode) {
Job *job;
if (manager_add_job_by_name_or_warn(m, JOB_START, name, mode, NULL, &job) < 0)
if (manager_add_job_by_name_or_warn_with_fallback(m, JOB_START, name, fallback, mode, /* affected_jobs= */ NULL, &job) < 0)
return;
const char *s = unit_status_string(job->unit, NULL);
@@ -3235,6 +3235,10 @@ static void manager_start_special(Manager *m, const char *name, JobMode mode) {
m->status_ready = false;
}
static void manager_start_special(Manager *m, const char *name, JobMode mode) {
manager_start_special_with_fallback(m, name, /* fallback= */ NULL, mode);
}
static void manager_handle_ctrl_alt_del(Manager *m) {
assert(m);
@@ -3242,7 +3246,11 @@ static void manager_handle_ctrl_alt_del(Manager *m) {
* unless it was disabled in system.conf. */
if (ratelimit_below(&m->ctrl_alt_del_ratelimit) || m->cad_burst_action == EMERGENCY_ACTION_NONE)
manager_start_special(m, SPECIAL_CTRL_ALT_DEL_TARGET, JOB_REPLACE_IRREVERSIBLY);
manager_start_special_with_fallback(
m,
SPECIAL_CTRL_ALT_DEL_TARGET,
FALLBACK_CTRL_ALT_DEL_TARGET,
JOB_REPLACE_IRREVERSIBLY);
else
emergency_action(
m,