>>>>> "Marvin" == Marvin Renich <m...@renich.org> writes:
Marvin> * Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> [180521 05:29]:
>> As I understood your original mail, it sounded like we expect the
>> service to fail because the user has not configured it yet. I
>> think I am missing the point of having it start automatically if
>> it will not work out of the box. Can you elaborate on what makes
>> you want it to start automatically?
Marvin> I'm not sure, so this may not be Sam's issue, but perhaps it
Marvin> should be attempted to start the service, but it might fail,
Marvin> and such failure should be ignored. I'm not sure if
Marvin> dh_installinit can do different things on initial install
Marvin> and upgrade, and it almost certainly cannot determine if a
Marvin> proper configuration has been put in place by the sysadmin
Marvin> before the initial install that would allow the service to
Marvin> start correctly. I don't use krb5-kdc, and don't know what
Marvin> the real issue is.
My bug can probably be closed.
My bug was filed at a point in time when dh_installinit
1) handled systemd service starting
2) tended to fail every time a systemd unit failed.
It sounds like neither of those are still true.
