Also, it was me sending SIGKILL, not systemctl. systemctl sent SIGTERM and then finished. But process is still running, so system ended up in weird state.
On 19 April 2017 at 15:25, Samuel Williams <space.ship.travel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using MariaDB - and the .service file launches mysqld directly - > it doesn't use mysqld_safe > > Here is the basic config, from Arch linux package: > > -- mariadb.service > ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld $MYSQLD_OPTS $_WSREP_NEW_CLUSTER > $_WSREP_START_POSITION > ExecStartPost=/bin/sh -c "systemctl unset-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION" > KillMode=process > KillSignal=SIGTERM > SendSIGKILL=no > Restart=on-abort > RestartSec=5s > > I checked correctly and the log output did appear stopped. Even though > the process was still running. The log output of mysqld during > recovery is only single progress counter without any newline > character.. perhaps this was part of the problem? > > I'm happy to have started a useful discussion, and I'm happy to > provide any feedback. I think, ideally, the service should be marked > as "starting up" but not "running" until recovery is complete. That's > because it won't accept connections until the table is fixed. However, > while in this starting up state, during table recovery, if something > bad happens, service may crash. > > I think ideally, if the service is taking a long time to start up, the > log output should be written directly to the person who invoked > systemctl, so they can see what is going on. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel