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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366">(forgot to reply to the list)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366">According to the manual page Requisite= should honor After= BTW:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366"> Requisite=<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366"> Similar to Requires=. However, if the units listed here are not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366"> started already, they will not be started and the starting of this<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366"> unit will fail immediately. Requisite= does not imply an ordering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366"> dependency, even if both units are started in the same transaction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366"> Hence this setting should usually be combined with After=, to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366"> ensure this unit is not started before the other unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366">So is the doc wrong, or is there some bug?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#993366">Ulrich Windl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">From:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE"> Windl, Ulrich
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 5, 2025 2:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Mantas Mikulėnas' <grawity@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [EXT] Re: [systemd-devel] Suggestion for " failed with result 'dependency'."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">H!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">You are right!:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">“systemd[1]: Host and Network Name Lookups is inactive.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">The problem is when you grep for your service name, because it’s not present anywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Strangely the message “systemd[1]: Reached target Host and Network Name Lookups.” Appears afterwards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Doesn’t “After=” play well with “Requisite=”?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Ulrich Windl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE">From:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:DE"> Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@gmail.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 5, 2025 9:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Windl, Ulrich <u.windl@ukr.de><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXT] Re: [systemd-devel] Suggestion for " failed with result 'dependency'."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 05/06/2025 10.00, Windl, Ulrich wrote:<span style="mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I wrote a simple service that did not start after boot. The joural message was:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">REST-server.service: Job REST-server.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Wouldn’t it be helpful to log WHICH dependency failed? As I started the server meanwhile that information isn’t available any more (it seems).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>It is logged in the journal, one line above the message you mention. It is merely not tagged with _SYSTEMD_UNIT= for 'systemctl status' to find it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Jun 05 10:25:24 frost systemd[1]: test2.service is inactive.<br>
Jun 05 10:25:24 frost systemd[1]: Dependency failed for test.service.<br>
Jun 05 10:25:24 frost systemd[1]: test.service: Job test.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.<o:p></o:p></p>
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