Bug#771122: restarting the journal breaks other services

[Michael Biebl]

Am 04.12.2014 um 15:20 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> Michael Biebl [2014-11-27  0:17 +0100]:
>> Maybe the least invasive change is, to move the systemd-journald
>> restart into the
>> if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl "215-3"; then
>> fi
> 
> This is the typical "between rock and hard place" situation. I agree
> that we should stop restarting it by default, but we probably have to
> for upgrades from wheezy. (Proably/hopefully most wheezy users don't
> run systemd yet, so it shouldn't matter that much ).
> 
> So I don't know a better solution than the above <= 215-3 version
> guard either; is everyone ok with going that route?

It was pointed out, that apparently for network-manager there is a patch
available, which works around the issue and better deals with a journald
restart. So the most prominent breakage is probably fixed by that.

That said, there might be other services, which we don't know of
currently, which might be affected and I feal a bit uneasy doing the
restart against upstreams recommendation.

So I'm leaning towards doing the restart only once during the
dist-upgrade (i.e. what Martin committed in the mean time to git)

I still want to upload the fix for NM in addition to that. Imho it makes
sense to do both.

Michael


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758533#44
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