[systemd-devel] Enter emergency when logind fails?

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Tue Apr 24 14:40:41 UTC 2018


On So, 22.04.18 09:42, Andrei Borzenkov (arvidjaar at gmail.com) wrote:

> So far systemd enters emergency only when one of filesystems failed to
> mount. Right now I'm facing system that fails to start logind and loops
> indefinitely. There is really nothing that can be done in this state -
> no way to access system and attempt to diagnose it. May be there should
> be some limit after which it goes in emergency mode, at least offering
> some possibilities to understand what happens.

Yeah, makes sense. Maybe some OnFailure= magic should suffice? can you
prep a patch and submit as PR?

Lennart

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