[systemd-devel] Service that fails and is auto restarted still goes through failed state

[przemn]

Hello,   When a service fails but is auto restarted by systemd due to Restart= it still goes through “failed” state before entering “activating" state. For example this is ActiveState and SubState of a service that when running fails three times before it fails to be restarted due to StartLimitBurst=, as reported by org.freedesktop.DBus.Propertie signal.   active      running  failed      failed  activating  auto-restart  inactive    dead  active      running  failed      failed  activating  auto-restart  inactive    dead  active      running  failed      failed  activating  auto-restart  inactive    dead  failed      failed   I was reading the following documentation and I thought that service will enter “failed” state only after it can’t be restarted anymore:  www.freedesktop.org www.freedesktop.org   “Note that service restart is subject to unit start rate limiting configured with StartLimitIntervalSec= and StartLimitBurst=, see systemd.unit(5)  for details. A restarted service enters the failed state only after the start limits are reached."   So I would assume there would be only one "failed" right at the end.   Do I understand this sentence wrong?   Przemyslaw
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