[systemd-devel] confusing message "systemd[1]: nss-lookup.target: Dependency Before=nss-lookup.target dropped"

Andrei Borzenkov arvidjaar at gmail.com
Tue Jan 14 19:08:16 UTC 2020


14.01.2020 10:57, Ulrich Windl пишет:
> Hi!
> 
> I see the message
> systemd[1]: nss-lookup.target: Dependency Before=nss-lookup.target dropped
> several times, wondering:
> 
> Does it say "nss-lookup.target" has a dependency "Before=nss-lookup.target" that was dropped, or is the first argument simply the wrong unit being displayed? It's systemd 228 of SLES 12 SP4.
> 

this is private SUSE patch so wrong list. But if you want to fix it -
edit /etc/insserv.conf and delete +named from $named line. It is not
really the fix, more a workaround, but this entry was non-functional
anyway so it simply eliminates extra noise.

> It's hard to believe a unit has a Before= dependency on itself.
> Looking into the unit directly, I cannot see such a direct dependency.
> Or is it "Artificial intelligence biting in its own tail"?
> 
> Regards,
> Ulrich
> 
> 
> 
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