Description of problem: systemd --test can not be run as root nor as an ordinary user Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 19 How reproducible: Allways Steps to Reproduce: 1. as root: systemd --test --system --unit=multi-user.target Don't run test mode as root. 2. as a normal user: $ systemd --test --system --unit=multi-user.target systemd 204 running in system mode. (+PAM +LIBWRAP +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ) Failed to set hostname to <fc20.homelinux.org>: Operation not permitted Failed to open /dev/tty0: Permission denied Failed to create root cgroup hierarchy: Permission denied Failed to allocate manager object: Permission denied Actual results: useless results Expected results: Usefull results Additional info: Bug proves --test functionality is not understood by the programmers. --test implies do nothing harmful and should be run by root. Bug proves --test functionality has not been tested at all. This example is strait from the fedora 19 docs.
This got fixed as part of the systemd-analyze work (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=0d8c31ff72 is the gist of that). So this works fine in F21 since a while. I'll not backport this though.