Currently "systemctl set-default" will fail to change the default target
due to the 'default.target' being a symlink which is always the case.
To work around this, the user must specify the "--force" switch to be
able to overwrite the existing symlink.
This is clearly a regression that was introduced by commit
718db96199e
since it worked before without the "--force" switch and the man pages do
not mention that you need to specify it. It is expected that this is a
symlink.
So just explicity set the force flag to make it work again.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76623
Reported-by: <code@progandy.de>
return log_oom();
if (!bus || avoid_bus()) {
- r = unit_file_set_default(arg_scope, arg_root, unit, arg_force, &changes, &n_changes);
+ r = unit_file_set_default(arg_scope, arg_root, unit, true, &changes, &n_changes);
if (r < 0) {
log_error("Failed to set default target: %s", strerror(-r));
return r;
"SetDefaultTarget",
&error,
&reply,
- "sb", unit, arg_force);
+ "sb", unit, true);
if (r < 0) {
log_error("Failed to set default target: %s", bus_error_message(&error, -r));
return r;