[systemd-devel] Masked services start dependencies in any case

[Jan Engelhardt]

Thread originated in
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-03/msg00419.html

On Monday 2015-03-30 01:07, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>On Sunday 2015-03-29 20:24, Stefan Seifert wrote:
>>
>>Some time in the last month Tumbleweed lost the ability to boot into runlevel 
>>3 (command line with no X server running) by appending a 3 to the kernel line 
>>in the grub menu. I guess that's because with systemd there are no numbered 
>>runlevels anymore,
>
>There is a bug… somewhere. !@#$%^&


Our basic.target requests klog.service.

Our klog.service has a Requires=default.target defined. This resolves 
to, say, graphical.target, *rather than* what's on the command line. And 
so, the graphic parts are started *even if* you have "3" on the boot 
line.

klog.service itself is masked in our setup, so it won't be started, but 
its dependencies *are* in systemd-219. Why, o why? >:-{
This did not occur in 210.




systemd debug messages….(after patching source code…):

Mar 29 19:38:37 jng-sfac systemd[1]: Pulling in graphical.target/start 
from klog.service/start

The log message at the start of the 
transaction_add_job_and_dependencies() function should really always be 
enabled, and not commented out, so that people can exactly figure out 
these kinds of weird systemd behaviors.