[systemd-devel] Confused about failed service reporting

[Edward Z. Yang]

A few weeks ago, yum-updatesd died due to the following bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709315

This is exactly something that we would like systemd to report
us.  However, while interacting with servers with the dead
yum-updatesd, we found it didn't show up when we ran
systemctl --failed.  When we ran normal diagnostics, we got:

[root at better-mousetrap ~]# systemctl status yum-updatesd.service
yum-updatesd.service - YUM Package  Update Service
      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/yum-updatesd.service)
      Active: inactive (dead)
      CGroup: name=systemd:/system/yum-updatesd.service

What's up with that? (Is this yet another "upgrade systemd,
and all ye problems will go away?")

Edward