Quan Zhou

~ > systemctl --user status
Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

~> systemctl --user status
● $HOSTNAME
    State: running
     Jobs: 0 queued
   Failed: 0 units
    Since: Wed 2021-01-27 21:27:40 CST; 14h ago
   CGroup: /user.slice/user-1003.slice/[email protected]
           ├─init.scope
           │ ├─6672 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
           │ └─6686 (sd-pam)
           └─gpg-agent.service
             └─20452 /usr/bin/gpg-agent --supervised

What Happened

systemctl on fish has no clue where is the user bus, by default it tries /proc/1/root then hits the wall.

ioctl(1, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/1/root", 0x7ffddd7abdd0, 0) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
writev(2, [{iov_base="Failed to connect to bus: No suc"..., iov_len=51}, {iov_base="\n", iov_len=1}], 2Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

Fish doesn't know XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

Fix

I simply added the following to ~/.config/fish/config.fish.

# systemd
set -gx XDG_RUNTIME_DIR /run/user/(id -u)

But why bash know this out of the box?