Bug#759098: systemctl reload behaviour change between 204 and 208

[Guido Günther]

Package: systemd
Version: 204-14
Severity: normal
File: /bin/systemctl

Hi,

While in systemd 204 reloading a service that is stopped is a noop and
exits with zero:

# systemctl stop virtlockd.service && systemctl reload virtlockd.service ; echo $?
Warning: Stopping virtlockd.service, but it can still be activated by:
  virtlockd.socket
0

It exits nonzero with 208:

# systemctl stop virtlockd.service && systemctl reloadvirtlockd.service ; echo $?
Warning: Stopping virtlockd.service, but it can still be activated by:
virtlockd.socket Job for virtlockd.service failed. See 'systemctl
status virtlockd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
1

This broke libvirt-daemon-system which relied on the 204
behaviour. I've worked around this in the postinst but there's
potential for more breackage on users systems. The 204 behaviour
should probably be restored.
Cheers
 -- Guido


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-rc6 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  acl                  2.2.52-1
ii  adduser              3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts          2.88dsf-53.3
ii  libacl1              2.2.52-1
ii  libaudit1            1:2.3.7-1
ii  libc6                2.19-7
ii  libcap2              1:2.24-4
ii  libcap2-bin          1:2.24-4
ii  libcryptsetup4       2:1.6.4-4
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.6-1
ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.4-2
ii  libkmod2             18-1
ii  liblzma5             5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
ii  libpam0g             1.1.8-3
ii  libselinux1          2.3-1
ii  libsystemd-daemon0   204-14
ii  libsystemd-journal0  204-14
ii  libsystemd-login0    204-14
ii  libudev1             208-6
ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-25
ii  sysv-rc              2.88dsf-53.3
ii  udev                 208-6
ii  util-linux           2.20.1-5.8

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  libpam-systemd  204-14

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
pn  systemd-ui  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/logind.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information