On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 2:54 PM Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
> Bear in mind I did have a malformed scarletdme.service file, it was > missing "Type=forking", but it shouldn't be bringing down unrelated > services, should it? > > This is the output from dovecot, which clearly failed to start on boot... > > thewolery /dev # systemctl status dovecot > × dovecot.service - Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email server > Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service; enabled; > vendor preset: disabled) > Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-02-07 07:55:11 > GMT; 3min 53s ago > Docs: man:dovecot(1) > https://doc.dovecot.org/ > Process: 1511 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dovecot -F (code=killed, > signal=TERM) > Process: 1529 ExecStop=/usr/bin/doveadm stop (code=exited, status=75) > Main PID: 1511 (code=killed, signal=TERM) > CPU: 22ms > > Feb 07 07:55:09 thewolery systemd[1]: Started Dovecot IMAP/POP3 email > server. > Feb 07 07:55:11 thewolery doveadm[1529]: Fatal: Dovecot is not running > (read from /run/dovecot/ma> > Feb 07 07:55:11 thewolery systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Control process > exited, code=exited, statu> > Feb 07 07:55:11 thewolery systemd[1]: dovecot.service: Failed with > result 'exit-code'. > thewolery /dev # systemctl restart dovecot > > But both samba and sshd failed similarly. I have vague recollections > somewhere of seeing a reference to qm in either the sshd or samba output > pre-restart, but don't know how to get back to it. (qm is the program > started by scarletdme.service.) > > Any ideas, anybody suspect it might be a bug in systemd? I've fixed the > scarletdme.service, but it's a bit weird that it's the first time I > booted with the broken .service, and three (at least) other services > failed. Although my system does seem to have stability problems, so I > don't know for certain where to place any blame. > Have you checked the whole `journalctl -b` for messages that happened around the actual failure? Could be just about anything, from services getting stopped due to their dependencies failing, to something missing due to *lack of* dependencies, to OOM killing random processes... -- Mantas Mikulėnas
