[systemd-devel] systemd "hangs" for several minutes on shutdown if it gets "service force-reload" request

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
<barbieri at profusion.mobi> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In Mandriva we are using {ifup,ifdown}.d script for callouts. One
>> package install script that - in both cases - does "service vnstat
>> force-reload". During shutdown it is causing interesting effect - this
>> request hangs which causing network service (that indirectly calls it)
>> to hang as well and be finally killed:
>
> Just out of curiosity, what vnstat does? Is it a daemon that keeps
> running or just run-once that accounts something in summary files?

# Short-Description: lightweight network traffic monitor

Yes, it is expected to start a daemon. But that's all I know about it :)