[systemd-devel] Cycle between logind and NetworkManager in case of remote user database

[Andrei Borzenkov]

NetworkManager sets logind inhibitor lock to monitor for suspend
events. So it implicitly requires logind to be present when NM starts.

logind is ordered after nss-user-lookup.target. If we have remote user
database, it means that logind depends on network to be up and running.

If network is provided by NetworkManager we have a loop.

Due to the fact that NetworkManager service itself does not declare
dependency on logind, it can be pretty hard to recognize.

Any idea how it can be solved nicely? I can only think of delaying
inhibitor logic in NM until logind is started. Not sure what side
effects it may have.