/etc/machine-id not available for some programs that need it
Reproduction 1
- fresh alpine install
- apk add transmission
- run transmission-gtk
= process 5699: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or directory See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue. =
Reproduction 2
- fresh alpine install
- apk add gnumeric
- run gnumeric
= process 5722: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or directory See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue. =
Reproduction 3
- fresh alpine install
- apk add gnumeric
- run gnumeric
= process 5732: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No such file or directory See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue. =
The user can’t run many programs because of this bug.
Not good.
(from redmine: issue id 8761, created on 2018-04-03, closed on 2018-08-22)