[systemd-devel] Confused about failed service reporting

[Eduardo Tongson]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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


It loaded so it did not fail. --failed only list failed units it does
show inactive units.

Check yum-updatesd.service, does it automatically restart the process?