Hello, everyone. Here's a debdiff patch with a backport of upstream patch to xenial branch of systemd.
I've successfully built a modified source and deployed it to some xenial machines — it works as intended, failed service restart correctly, just as intended by Restart=always policy. Before: systemd[1]: vpp.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT systemd[1]: Stopped vector packet processing engine. systemd[1]: vpp.service: Unit entered failed state. systemd[1]: vpp.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'. systemd[1]: vpp.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. systemd[1]: vpp.service: Failed to schedule restart job: Transaction is destructive. systemd[1]: vpp.service: Unit entered failed state. systemd[1]: vpp.service: Failed with result 'resources'. After: systemd[1]: vpp.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=6/ABRT systemd[1]: Stopped vector packet processing engine. systemd[1]: vpp.service: Unit entered failed state. systemd[1]: vpp.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'. systemd[1]: vpp.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart. systemd[1]: Stopped vector packet processing engine. systemd[1]: Starting vector packet processing engine... ** Patch added: "debdiff for xenial systemd branch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1839290/+attachment/5281628/+files/lp-1839290-xenial.debdiff -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1839290 Title: systemd doesn't restart a service after crashes Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Affected versions of OS and systemd: $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS \n \l $ systemd --version systemd 229 +PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ -LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD -IDN Affected packages: systemd 229-4ubuntu21.22 and previous versions. Expected behaviour you didn't see: Scheduling restart of failed service. A process crashed by sigabrt and didn't restart. Description: The bug was reported to a systemd upstream repository: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11456 The bug was fixed and accepted to the master branch: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/11467/files Action: Include this patch to Ubuntu 16.04 and other version of Ubuntu which are supported. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1839290/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

