[systemd-devel] How to debug blocking service start?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 26.03.15 20:26, Kai Krakow (hurikhan77 at gmail.com) wrote:

> Kai Hendry <hendry at webconverger.com> schrieb:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > How do I figure out why or where something is stuck?
> > http://s.natalian.org/2015-03-25/systemd-start-issue.png
> > 
> > `journalctl -u surf -f` prints nothing.
> > 
> > Binary surf runs fine when I run it manually.
> 
> It probably is not stuck, it's systemd waiting for the command to return. 
> Try Type=simple to not let it wait. That is telling systemd, that the binary 
> will not daemonize - athough it should be default according to [1].

Note that Type=simple is actually the implied default. Hence no need
to specify this explicitly.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat