From 3c2d2345814935cea8525e802e764fb2949eb3df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 18:22:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] core: do not touch /run/systemd/systemd-units-load from user
 session instances

Follow-up for: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/15b9243c0d7f6d1531fa65dbc01bd11e8e6c12ca
Fixes: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/21911

(cherry picked from commit 4b3ad81bfafcd97acb06db463495e348d159d8e6)

Related: #2136869
---
 src/core/manager.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/core/manager.c b/src/core/manager.c
index a9cd51b624..e083596e58 100644
--- a/src/core/manager.c
+++ b/src/core/manager.c
@@ -3555,9 +3555,10 @@ int manager_reload(Manager *m) {
         manager_catchup(m);
 
         /* Create a file which will indicate when the manager started loading units the last time. */
-        (void) touch_file("/run/systemd/systemd-units-load", false,
-                m->timestamps[MANAGER_TIMESTAMP_UNITS_LOAD].realtime ?: now(CLOCK_REALTIME),
-                UID_INVALID, GID_INVALID, 0444);
+        if (MANAGER_IS_SYSTEM(m))
+                (void) touch_file("/run/systemd/systemd-units-load", false,
+                        m->timestamps[MANAGER_TIMESTAMP_UNITS_LOAD].realtime ?: now(CLOCK_REALTIME),
+                        UID_INVALID, GID_INVALID, 0444);
 
         /* Sync current state of bus names with our set of listening units */
         q = manager_enqueue_sync_bus_names(m);