[systemd-devel] Race in post scripts for systemd/systemd-units

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 16.10.10 11:07, Andrey Borzenkov (arvidjaar at gmail.com) wrote:

> (Working on Mandriva cooker), systemd v11.
> 
> {pts/0}% sudo rpm -Fvh RPMS/x86_64/*
> Подготовка...     ########################################### [100%]
>    1:systemd-units          ########################################### [ 50%]
>    2:systemd                ########################################### [100%]
> Failed to issue method call: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes
> include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus
> security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the
> network connection was broken.
> 
> Well, systemd post re-executes systemd and systemd-units reloads it.
> Is it possible that systemd is busy with reloading so it does not
> respond to request for re-execution?
> 
> Somehow I am not really fond of simply increasing timeout in
> daemon_reload() but may be this is the simplest solution.

This looks like some mixup in the serialization/deserialization code. If
you can reproduce this with current git, could you report back with an
output of "dmesg" with systemd.log_level=debug and
systemd.log_target=kmsg?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.