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Before #30884, the user state is tied to user@.service (user service manager). However, #30884 introduced sessions that need no manager, and we can no longer rely on that. Consider the following situation: 1. A 'background-light' session '1' is created (i.e. no user service manager is needed) 2. Session '1' scope unit pulls in user-runtime-dir@.service 3. Session '1' exits. A stop job is enqueued for user-runtime-dir@.service due to StopWhenUnneeded=yes 4. At the same time, another session '2' which requires user manager is started. However, session scope units have JobMode=fail, therefore the start job for user-runtime-dir@.service that was pulled in by session '2' scope job is deleted as it conflicts with the stop job. We want session scope units to continue using JobMode=fail, but we still need the dependencies to be started correctly, i.e. explicitly requested by logind beforehand. Therefore, let's stop using StopWhenUnneeded=yes for user-runtime-dir@.service, and track users' `started` and `stopping` state based on that when user@.service is not needed. Then, for every invocation of user_start(), we'll recheck if we need the service manager and start it if so. Also, the dependency type on user-runtime-dir@.service from user@.service is upgraded to `BindsTo=`, in order to ensure that when logind stops the former, the latter is stopped as well.
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