Control: tags -1 + moreinfo On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:08:32 -0800 James Bottomley <james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com> wrote: > Package: systemd > Version: 215-8 > Severity: normal > > Almost every time the system reboots, spamassassin fails to start. The > systemd logs for this are: > > # systemctl status -l spamassassin.service > â spamassassin.service - Perl-based spam filter using text analysis > Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/spamassassin.service; enabled) > Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Sat 2015-01-17 08:49:04 PST; 3min > 45s ago > Process: 528 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/spamd -d > --pidfile=/var/run/spamassassin.pid $OPTIONS (code=killed, signal=TERM) > > Jan 17 08:48:10 bedivere spamd[528]: logger: removing stderr method > Jan 17 08:49:04 bedivere systemd[1]: spamassassin.service start operation > timed out. Terminating. > Jan 17 08:49:04 bedivere systemd[1]: Failed to start Perl-based spam filter > using text analysis. > Jan 17 08:49:04 bedivere systemd[1]: Unit spamassassin.service entered failed > state. > Jan 17 08:49:04 bedivere spamd[748]: spamd: server killed by SIGTERM, > shutting down > Jan 17 08:49:04 bedivere spamd[748]: spamd: cannot unlink > /var/run/spamassassin.pid: No such file or directory > > This server is still x86 and a big internet system, so it has lots of > intensive processes on start, like fail2ban , clamd and apache. It > looks like because of this, systemd gives spamassassin a few seconds > (there's no log of how long; the logger message is from the pre-reboot > os) to start and it takes longer. > > As far as I can tell, this value doesn't seem to be configurable or > even package specific. It looks remarkably silly for the init system > to impose an absolute timeout on service start, particularly when it > doesn't take into account the characteristics of the machine or ask > the package how long it might reasonably take. > > So far, it's only spamassassin, so it's annoying but not serious to > have to log in and restart it after every reboot. However, if systemd > did this to a necessary service, it would become a serious bug
Can you provide instructions how this issue can be reproduced? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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