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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW - systemctl hangs on start/stop/restart since ebd011d9"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87950">87950</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>systemctl hangs on start/stop/restart since ebd011d9
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>systemd
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>x86-64 (AMD64)
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux (All)
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>general
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>mail@eliasprobst.eu
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          <th>QA Contact</th>
          <td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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        <pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=111624" name="attach_111624" title="strace of "systemctl restart postgresql-9.3.service"">attachment 111624</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=111624&action=edit" title="strace of "systemctl restart postgresql-9.3.service"">[details]</a></span>
strace of "systemctl restart postgresql-9.3.service"

Running any systemctl operation like start/stop/restart makes systemctl hang
forever not returning to the prompt.

This is not restricted to any specific services but happens for any.

Running systemctl in strace shows this(full log attached):
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL,
msg_iov(1)=[{"l\4\1\1Q\0\0\0\22\0\0\0z\0\0\0\1\1o\0\31\0\0\0", 24}],
msg_controllen=32, {cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET,
cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=1, uid=0, gid=0}}, msg_flags=MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC},
MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_NOSIGNAL|MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = 24
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL,
msg_iov(1)=[{"/org/freedesktop/systemd1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 201}],
msg_controllen=32, {cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET,
cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=1, uid=0, gid=0}}, msg_flags=MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC},
MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_NOSIGNAL|MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = 201
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL,
msg_iov(1)=[{"l\4\1\1!\2\0\0\23\0\0\0\236\0\0\0\1\1o\0;\0\0\0", 24}],
msg_controllen=32, {cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET,
cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=1, uid=0, gid=0}}, msg_flags=MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC},
MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_NOSIGNAL|MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = 24
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL,
msg_iov(1)=[{"/org/freedesktop/systemd1/unit/p"..., 697}], msg_controllen=32,
{cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=1, uid=0,
gid=0}}, msg_flags=MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC},
MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_NOSIGNAL|MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = 697
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL,
msg_iov(1)=[{"l\4\1\1\304\2\0\0\24\0\0\0\236\0\0\0\1\1o\0;\0\0\0", 24}],
msg_controllen=32, {cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET,
cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=1, uid=0, gid=0}}, msg_flags=MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC},
MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_NOSIGNAL|MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = 24
recvmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL,
msg_iov(1)=[{"/org/freedesktop/systemd1/unit/p"..., 860}], msg_controllen=32,
{cmsg_len=28, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_type=SCM_CREDENTIALS{pid=1, uid=0,
gid=0}}, msg_flags=MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC},
MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_NOSIGNAL|MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = 860
recvmsg(3, 0x7fffe2d419e0, MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_NOSIGNAL|MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = -1
EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
ppoll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, NULL, NULL, 8
Attaching strace shows first only this line:
ppoll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, NULL, NULL, 8


I was able to bisect this down to ebd011d9
(<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=ebd011d9">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=ebd011d9</a>)
Kernel is 3.18.1 (no kdbus)
dbus version is 1.8.10</pre>
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