On 8/6/25 09:03, Jérôme Charaoui wrote:

I'm running a (rather large) mailman3 instance on Debian 13 (trixie) using the 
distribution packages.

To manage the mailman3 daemon, the package installs this systemd service unit: 
https://sources.debian.org/src/mailman3/3.3.10-2/debian/mailman3.service/

It has been working fine until recently: after a reboot, we noticed the 
mailman3 unit consistently failing to start due to a timeout error.

I figured out that the timeout was related to the service unit type 
(Type=forking) and the fact that the main/parent process was forking 
subprocesses (and running normally), writing a PID file, but it wasn't exiting, 
so systemd identifies this as an error and aborts the service.


The master is not supposed to exit. It continues to run and monitor the child runner processes and will under some circumstances restart a runner that dies.


Since switching to Type=simple, it has been working fine.


This is a Debian package issue and should be reported to Debian. See https://wiki.list.org/x/12812344


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