[systemd-devel] Transaction contains conflicting jobs 'restart' and 'stop'

[Orion Poplawski]

Can someone please explain this to me?

# systemctl restart firewalld
Failed to restart firewalld.service: Transaction contains conflicting jobs
'restart' and 'stop' for fail2ban.service. Probably contradicting
requirement dependencies configured.

# cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/fail2ban.service
[Unit]
Description=Fail2Ban Service
Documentation=man:fail2ban(1)
After=network.target
PartOf=iptables.service firewalld.service

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/fail2ban-client -x start
ExecStop=/usr/bin/fail2ban-client stop
ExecReload=/usr/bin/fail2ban-client reload
PIDFile=/var/run/fail2ban/fail2ban.pid
Restart=always

[Install]

# cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service
[Unit]
Description=firewalld - dynamic firewall daemon
Before=network.target
Before=libvirtd.service
Before=NetworkManager.service
Conflicts=iptables.service ip6tables.service ebtables.service

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/firewalld
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/firewalld --nofork --nopid $FIREWALLD_ARGS
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
# supress to log debug and error output also to /var/log/messages
StandardOutput=null
StandardError=null
Type=dbus
BusName=org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1

[Install]
WantedBy=basic.target
Alias=dbus-org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1.service