[systemd-devel] Detecting Systemd crash

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sa, 03.02.24 16:55, Álvaro Cebrián Juan (acebrianjuan at gmail.com) wrote:

> Great question!
>
> I am very interested in detecting systemd crashes too since I have
> experienced them recently and have been asked to come up with a solution to
> react when a PID1 crash happens.
> In fact, in my recent experiences, a journald crash was enough to render
> the system into an unreliable/degraded state in which some top-level
> applications worked while others didn't.
>
> So adding to David's 1st question, I need to detect systemd and journald
> crashes and then trigger a `systemctl reboot --force --force`
> command

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread just use RuntimeWatchdogSec= in
systemd-system.conf(5)

Lennart

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