Am 01.03.2018 um 20:35 schrieb Felipe Sateler: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 2:46 PM, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: >> Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible >> >> Am 01.03.2018 um 16:00 schrieb Martin von Wittich: >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 15:10:26 +0100 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: >>>> I can't reproduce this, neither on v237 nor on v232: >>>> >>>> # systemctl stop postgresql@does-not-exist >>>> Failed to stop postgresql@does-not-exist.service: Unit >>>> postgresql@does-not-exist.service not loaded. >>>> >>>> # systemctl start postgresql@does-not-exist >>>> Failed to start postgresql@does-not-exist.service: Unit >>>> postgresql@does-not-exist.service not found. >>>> >>>> # systemctl restart postgresql@does-not-exist >>>> Failed to restart postgresql@does-not-exist.service: Unit >>>> postgresql@does-not-exist.service not found. >>> >>> Do you have a postgresql template installed (should be the case when you >>> have a postgresql-9.{4,6} (jessie/stretch) server package installed)? If >>> not, try another template, maybe getty (I hope that's available on every >>> system, would make reproducing this a lot easier): >> >> Hm, right. I completely missed the part about "valid-template", and no, >> I didn't have postgresql@.service. >> >> But I'm not sure if what you are seeing is actually a bug. A templated >> service does not necessarily need a representation on disk. It is very >> much possible, that you simply want to pass a command flag to a daemon >> for example. >> >> So systemd will happily start/stop/restart such a noop in your case. The >> only case where it fails is, on a reload, because there wasn't actually >> a process running which could be reloaded. >> >> Sounds a bit strange but is imho consistent. >> > > I think the problem is postgres has: > > # -: ignore startup failure (recovery might take arbitrarily long) > # the actual pg_ctl timeout is configured in pg_ctl.conf > ExecStart=-/usr/bin/pg_ctlcluster --skip-systemctl-redirect %i start > > If postgres would report the error back to systemd, it would at least > tell you that. > > getty@.service suffers from the same issue. Other units do not: >
You are spot on, Felipe. Afaics, systemd works as designed. Question is, whether this bug report should be assigned to postgresql to not use '-'. CCing Christoph for his input. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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