[systemd-devel] Cannot add dependency job for unit... Cannot allocate memory

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 21.02.13 09:48, Anthony Messina (amessina at messinet.com) wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, so please direct me to the 
> proper list if it's not.  And byt the way, THANK YOU for systemd!  The more I 
> read and try, the simpler my systems get.
> 
> Anyway, I'm writing due to an issue I'm seeing on a few of my Fedora 18 
> machines after I've created a unit file for instantiation that will acquire 
> Kerberos tickets for user-based services such as apache and mythtv, etc. to 
> access NFSv4.1 filesystems.  Any assistance would be appreciated, especially 
> with pointers on improving the unit file itself.  I have attached the dmesg 
> output after booting with "systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=kmsg"
> 
> Thanks in advance -A
> 
> I am intermittently running into the error:
> "Cannot add dependency job for unit k5start at mythtv.service, ignoring: Unit 
> k5start at mythtv.service failed to load: Cannot allocate memory. See system logs 
> and 'systemctl status k5start at mythtv.service'
>  for details."

Heya, this appears to be a problem with a specifier used in this unit
file. Something is using those %x %y %z specifiers in strings they
shouldn't be used. I have now commited a fix to git, to make the error
message about this more useful and not claim it was an OOM situation.

Lennart

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