[libvirt PATCH 7/9] util: relax requirement for logind to be running

[Peter Krempa]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 14:32:30 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> Historically we wanted to check if logind was actually running, not
> merely activatable, because on systems where systemd is installed,
> but the OS is booted into non-systemd init, we want to fallback to
> pm-utils.
> 
> Requiring logind to be running, however, forces us to serialize libvirtd
> startup on startup of logind which is undesirable. We can relax this
> dependancy if we check whether systemd itself is running, which implies
> that logind will activated when we need it.
> 
> https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/489
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/util/virsystemd.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

Based on the discussion in the other thread:

Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>