Package: systemd Version: 215-17+deb8u3 I have reproduced the issues described in the bug reports #774153 and #737825 (they look like duplicates to me, really).
After a minor apt upgrade run here (libgraphite2 stable update and darktable backport upgrade), needrestart asked me if I wanted to restart some services which seemed to need restart. I checked all boxes - i seem to recall that udev was checked off by default but i rechecked it. It seems this may have been the cause of the problem, because after that, I ended up having problems with the following services which wouldn't restart properly: * colord.service * ModemManager.service * udev.service * udisks.service * udisks2.service I would also have my logs more or less (1/sec) flooded with: fév 15 19:55:46 marcos systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little. Installing a new package (sopel) also would hang on the systemd-tty-ask-password-agent call, oddly enough. Restarting udev unhang the install: Paramétrage de sopel (6.3.0-1) ... Warning! D-Bus connection terminated. Failed to wait for response: Succès invoke-rc.d: initscript sopel, action "start" failed. dpkg: erreur de traitement du paquet sopel (--install) : le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1 It also allowed me to restart the other services. I also tried `systemctl daemon-reexec` as recommended in #774153, not sure what impact it had. There was definitely something wrong, but it's recoverable. This could be a udev bug of some sort, but since this is all systemd now... who knows!? ;) Thanks, A. -- Le monochrome, c'est pour ceux qui s'intéressent (encore) au contenu. Usenet dans ces conditions, c'est comme le web avec lynx, on prend trop conscience du vide, c'est déprimant. - JLC dans le Guide du linuxien pervers: "Coup de cafard..."