[systemd-devel] Why do stop jobs run asynchronously on "systemctl isolate target"?

[Umut Tezduyar]

Hi,

Can we bring this discussion up again please? Thank you.


On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Umut Tezduyar <umut at tezduyar.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have realized that return of "systemctl isolate <target>" command is
> only synchronous for "starting" jobs but not for "stopping" jobs. How can
> one make sure when "systemctl isolate <target>" returns, services that are
> needed to be stopped are stopped AND services that are needed to be started
> are started on target <target>?
>
> I am using systemd with SysV support and I have runlevel 3 and 4 in use.
> default.target is runlevel3.target and mytarget is runlevel4.target.
> mytarget is only used to stop some of the services started by runlevel3.
> When I run "systemctl isolate mytarget.target", command returns immediately
> and further run of "systemctl is-active mytarget.target" returns as
> "active". However, I can see that there are "stop" jobs running by
> "systemctl list-jobs". I would like to find out, either synchronously or by
> polling, when new target is really active. Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks
> Umut
>
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