[systemd-devel] Have I got circular dependencies?

Kevin P. Fleming kevin at km6g.us
Mon Jan 24 11:08:12 UTC 2022


According to 'man systemd.unit' it goes in the '[Unit]' section, like
all other dependency statements.

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM Wols Lists <antlists at youngman.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 23/01/2022 19:44, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > Where dependency to /home comes from? It is not in your unit file.
>
> If it thinks my unit depends on /home, that's wrong. /home comes from
> fstab, and the partition is not available until AFTER my service has
> run. Home is on an lv, which is on raid, which is on dm-integrity, which
> isn't available until my service has turned it on ...
> >
> > Otherwise normal services are ordered by default after sysinit.target and
> > local file systems are ordered before sysinit.target so you have loop. Add
> > DefaultDependencies=no to your service definition.
>
> Thanks. I presume that goes in the [Install] section? I can find plenty
> of stuff telling me WHAT DefaultDependencies is, but nothing I can
> understand that tells me WHERE it goes.
>
> Thanks,
> Cheers,
> Wol


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