Created attachment 1849026 [details] dracut config dropin file Description of problem: Even when dracut is configured with systemd-network-management, which includes systemd-hostnamed, hostnamed is not started Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dracut-055-6.fc35.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure dracut to use systemd-hostnamed 2.Create initrams 3.Boot in a dhcp enviroment with parameter rd.break 4.In emergency shell type journal -u systemd-network Actual results: There is a "Could not set hostname" error. Journalctl logs all messages with the default hostname "fedora". journalctl -u systemd-hostnamed shows the hostnamed never ran. Typing hostnamectl results in Failed to connect to bus: Connection refused Expected results: Log shows Hostname set to <hostname> (transient) Additional info: This happens because systemd-hostnamed is not in in /etc/group and dbus.socket is included but not enabled, so systemd-hostnamed, which is dbus activated, never runs. The systemd-hostnamed is not in the hosts /etc/group so the the method of extracting the group from the hosts /etc/group and putting it in the inird /etc/group doesn't work. This group name is placed in a sysusers conf file (systemd-hostname-dracut.conf), but systemd-sysusers is included in initramfs but never started. There seems little point in arranging systemd-sysusers to run in initrd when it could just as well run on the host, which is what I have done in the attached patch. Note that it requires arranging for the systemd-sysusers module to be run last (after any modules which install configuration files in sysusersconfdir).
Created attachment 1849028 [details] Path This patch requires 01systemd-sysusers be renamed to 99systemd-sysusers
Created attachment 1926022 [details] Patch to enable systemd-hostnamed. As of Fedora36, systemd-hostnamed is not started in initrd. Now there is an attempt to create the systemd-hostnamed group, but it fails. Also a link to enable dbus activation is missing. Create required link so systemd-hostnamed can be started via dbus so that, for example hostnamectl works. Remove GECOS field from the entry for systemd-hostname as it is not understood by systemd-sysusers and this group is required for the systemd-hostnamed service to run.
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