diff --git a/src/basic/virt.c b/src/basic/virt.c
index 7d78a402b3..33d7106c0e 100644
--- a/src/basic/virt.c
+++ b/src/basic/virt.c
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ int detect_container(void) {
                  */
                 e = getenv("container");
                 if (!e)
-                        goto check_sched;
+                        goto none;
                 if (isempty(e)) {
                         r = VIRTUALIZATION_NONE;
                         goto finish;
@@ -545,24 +545,7 @@ int detect_container(void) {
         if (r < 0) /* This only works if we have CAP_SYS_PTRACE, hence let's better ignore failures here */
                 log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to read $container of PID 1, ignoring: %m");
 
-        /* Interestingly /proc/1/sched actually shows the host's PID for what we see as PID 1. If the PID
-         * shown there is not 1, we know we are in a PID namespace and hence a container. */
- check_sched:
-        r = read_one_line_file("/proc/1/sched", &m);
-        if (r >= 0) {
-                const char *t;
-
-                t = strrchr(m, '(');
-                if (!t)
-                        return -EIO;
-
-                if (!startswith(t, "(1,")) {
-                        r = VIRTUALIZATION_CONTAINER_OTHER;
-                        goto finish;
-                }
-        } else if (r != -ENOENT)
-                return r;
-
+none:
         /* If that didn't work, give up, assume no container manager. */
         r = VIRTUALIZATION_NONE;
         goto finish;