Am 26.08.2014 15:09, schrieb Nicolas George: > Thanks for looking into it. > > Le nonidi 9 fructidor, an CCXXII, Michael Biebl a écrit : >> I still get those error messages with v214 but it seems the session is >> cleaned up properly. I do no longer have any (sd-pam) processes for that >> user and no delay on shutdown. > > I believe the difference is caused by this bug, present in v208 but fixed in > v214: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749268 > > In v208, the failure and timeout happen at shutdown (or when the admin stops > the service explicitly). In v214, the failure and timeout happen immediately > when the "nobody" session finishes, and thus happens completely in > background. The service still goes into failure state, and I suppose that > can have subtle advert effects; it definitely looks unclean. > >> That said, I guess we should fix the code to fall back to something safe >> like / if the CHDIR does not succeed resp. the directory does not exist. > > I am not entirely sure this would be a good thing: having a nonexistent home > directory is made for preventing this kind of thing to happen. > > In this particular case, I find it rather strange to try to invoke /bin/kill > instead of killing directly. I did not manage to find where it came from by > reading the code.
Since this looks like a clear upstream bug, could you please file it upstream and report back with the bug number. Thanks, Michael [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=systemd -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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