[systemd-devel] Cannot start service due to 'systemd-tty-ask-password-agent --watch' not answering

[Yeela Kaplan]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lennart Poettering" <lennart at poettering.net>
> To: "Yeela Kaplan" <ykaplan at redhat.com>
> Cc: systemd-devel at lists.freedesktop.org, "Oved Ourfali" <ovedo at redhat.com>, "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 6:51:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] Cannot start service due to 'systemd-tty-ask-password-agent --watch' not answering
> 
> On Tue, 08.09.15 11:29, Yeela Kaplan (ykaplan at redhat.com) wrote:
> 
> > > Hmm? You wrote earlier that systemctl was hanging. Is it hanging or
> > > isn't it hanging?
> > 
> > I'm sorry, I used the wrong word.
> > I meant that it is not blocking.
> > But it also does not start the service.
> > So eventually, that's our problem, that the service does not start.. even
> > though systemd is not blocking.
> > Maybe it's just an issue that happened on this specific host.
> 
> Hmm, what do you mean by "not starting"? Does "systemctl status" on
> the service unit say it's up? Can you paste the output of this?
> 

when using 'ps' there is no such process.. 
and also for status:

systemctl status supervdsmd
supervdsmd.service - "Auxiliary vdsm service for running helper functions as root"
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/supervdsmd.service; static)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Sep 02 06:37:36 green-vdsc.qa.lab.tlv.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopped "Auxiliary vdsm service for running helper functions as root".
Sep 02 06:42:12 green-vdsc.qa.lab.tlv.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopped "Auxiliary vdsm service for running helper functions as root".
Sep 02 07:30:52 green-vdsc.qa.lab.tlv.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopped "Auxiliary vdsm service for running helper functions as root".
Sep 02 08:23:59 green-vdsc.qa.lab.tlv.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopped "Auxiliary vdsm service for running helper functions as root".
Sep 02 11:08:51 green-vdsc.qa.lab.tlv.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopped "Auxiliary vdsm service for running helper functions as root".
Sep 02 12:16:32 green-vdsc.qa.lab.tlv.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopped "Auxiliary vdsm service for running helper functions as root".
Sep 02 13:25:02 green-vdsc.qa.lab.tlv.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopped "Auxiliary vdsm service for running helper functions as root".
Sep 02 13:37:48 green-vdsc.qa.lab.tlv.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopped "Auxiliary vdsm service for running helper functions as root".
Sep 02 13:41:10 green-vdsc.qa.lab.tlv.redhat.com systemd[1]: Stopped "Auxiliary vdsm service for running helper functions as root"

> Did it start, but maybe just exit quickly?
> 

If it would have started I'd expect to see it in our logs (/usr/share/vdsm/supervdsm.log) but there is no such indication.. 

> Lennart
> 
> --
> Lennart Poettering, Red Hat
>