[systemd-devel] Failed at step RUNTIME_DIRECTORY spawning /usr/bin/true: File exists

[Ivan Shapovalov]

On 2015-08-10 at 11:16 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 10.08.2015 um 07:57 schrieb Ivan Shapovalov:
> > On 2015-08-06 at 15:01 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > 2015-08-06 14:43 GMT+02:00 Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
> > > :
> > > > well, but "Type=simple" is default and recommended everywhere
> > > > because there
> > > > is no main-pid to guess and the with "Restart=always" monitored 
> > > > is
> > > > in fact
> > > > "ExecStart"
> > > 
> > > Actually, Type=simple has its own share of problems:
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778913
> > 
> > That's a direct consequence of Type=simple semantics. From 
> > systemd's
> > standpoint, a daemon which crashes 10ms after start-up due to bad
> > config is indistinguishable from a daemon which crashes 10hrs after
> > starting due to an internal error.
> > 
> > To make things more robust, the daemon should either *properly*
> > implement Type=forking (i. e. fork only after initial start-up)
> > or it should implement Type=notify
> 
> sorry but in context of the topic that's wrong
> 
> * "RuntimeDirectory" is a service configuration
> * the daemon is started as unprivileged user
> * "RuntimeDirectory" should be created long before
>    ExecStart / ExecStartPost and hence i wonder how
>    there can exist a race condition at all, there
>    is no valid reason trying to create it twice

I was replying to a specific message. My reply has nothing to do with
original problem (which is already fixed in PR 896).

-- 
Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /
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