[systemd-devel] troubleshooting different behaviour of systemd between f16 and f18

[Thierry Parmentelat]

Hi Kay; thanks for taking the time to write this down

I understand what you guys are saying; and at first sight I am on the safe side here though (as the name suggests, pl_sysinit will only mount filesystems and init network interfaces and the like)

However your answers do not shed any light on the reason why pl_sysinit does not seem to be triggered *at all* (unless again this is only an artifact of the output policy)

-- Thierry

On Feb 13, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Kay Sievers wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Thierry Parmentelat
> <thierry.parmentelat at inria.fr> wrote:
>> Thanks for the feedback; I didn't know that, so it might come in handy in understanding the problem
>> 
>> However, I'm puzzled because it looks like there's no attempt at all to launch pl_sysinit
> 
> The background here is:
> ExecStartPre= is for preparation of the environment of the following
> ExecStart=. But that cannot include any background processes.
> 
> As soon as the main process of ExecStartPre= exit()s, all things that
> the main process has possibly started in the background will be
> forcefully killed by systemd. The entire cgroup where ExecStartPre=
> runs in will be cleaned up.
> 
> Maybe your stuff is killed before it can even really start?
> ExecStartPre= cannot be used to start _any_ processes.
> 
> If that is required for your tools, the things from ExecStartPre=
> should move into its own additional service file, and that one pulled
> in by the main service.
> 
> Kay