systemd: sysv-generator overzealous with log level (was: Bug#785710: open-iscsi: Ignoring creation of an alias umountiscsi.service for itself)

[Christian Seiler]

Control: severity -1 minor
Control: reassign -1 systemd 215-17
Control: retitle -1 systemd: sysv-generator overzealous with log level

Am 2015-05-19 14:50, schrieb Mathieu Malaterre:
> Seems like there is something going on wrong with systemd and current
> jessie package. My dmesg reveals:
>
> [  498.092392] systemd-sysv-generator[2283]: Ignoring creation of an
> alias umountiscsi.service for itself
> [  500.458506] systemd-sysv-generator[2553]: Ignoring creation of an
> alias umountiscsi.service for itself
> [  500.920300] systemd-sysv-generator[2567]: Ignoring creation of an
> alias umountiscsi.service for itself
> [  501.127611] systemd-sysv-generator[2597]: Ignoring creation of an
> alias umountiscsi.service for itself
> [  501.324297] systemd-sysv-generator[2612]: Ignoring creation of an
> alias umountiscsi.service for itself

This is harmless. systemd's sysv-generator is just a bit overzealous
in its loglevel for this message: this should probably be a debug
message rather than a 'notice' message.

Reason for this message is: /etc/init.d/umountiscsi.sh has a LSB
header Provides: umountiscsi. (This is typical for init scripts ending
in .sh.)

open-iscsi should work properly regardless. (If not, please file a
separate bug.)

Reassigning to systemd package, but lowering severity to minor.

Christian

PS: Note that for Stretch we want to get rid of umountiscsi.sh as an
init script - and move the logic of it somewhere else so it can be
called from the regular init script as well as from a native systemd
service that we plan to provide. That change to the open-iscsi package
will be too invasive for Jessie, however.