Bug 90601

Summary:	systemctl --user list-units includes system units
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Tim Cuthbertson <tim>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	unexpected user units

Description Tim Cuthbertson 2015-05-23 05:36:13 UTC

`systemctl --user list-units` includes user units, but also includes system units. This makes it difficult to see the status of user services, because they're mixed in with all the system services. It also makes it difficult for scripts to act on only user-level services.

`systemctl --user list-unit-files` seems to do the right thing - it displays only user unit files.

systemd version 216

Comment 1 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2015-05-23 12:55:09 UTC

Can you be more specific: what unit do you say that are unexpected?

Comment 2 Tim Cuthbertson 2015-05-24 00:41:13 UTC

Created attachment 115998 [details]
unexpected user units

Sorry, I thought all system units were reported (and that it would be obvious). But on further inspection, it seems to be just .device, .mount and .swap system-level units which are reported.

Attached are the lines from my own user's `systemctl --user list-units` which I don't think should be present.

Comment 3 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2015-05-24 01:44:39 UTC

Those are expected. In the user instance, device and mount and swap units are created to mirror current state of the system.

Comment 4 Tim Cuthbertson 2015-05-24 03:44:01 UTC

Thanks for the clarification. I've looked for documentation about this, but couldn't find any description of why this would be the case. I don't suppose you know where it's documented?

Comment 5 Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek 2015-05-24 15:06:56 UTC

I don't think it is or needs to be documented in any special way. Simply put, user services can depend on devices and other system-wide state the same as a system services.

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