Bug#863601: systemd-notify doesn't work because of race condition

[Michael Biebl]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2739

On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 17:50:27 +0200 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 May 2017 09:20:52 +0200
> =?UTF-8?B?0JDQvdC00YDQtdC5INCU0L7RhtC10L3QutC+?= <cnconlinux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Package: systemd
> > Version: 232
> > 
> > I used unit-file with options below:
> > 
> > Type=notify
> > NotifyAccess=all
> > 
> > Command `systemd-notify --ready` worked only once. All other times it did
> > nothing. Service was killed by systemd after timeout. systemd-notify
> > returned zero code (success). No error was reported.
> > 
> > Workaround script I used to solve the issue:
> > 
> > inport systemd.daemon;
> > systemd.daemon.notify('READY=1')
> > 
> > Another bug report might describe the same issue:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=982376
> > But in my case everything works without any sleeps.
> 
> Can you please share the complete unit file and the script you used so
> we have a minimal test case to reproduce the issue.

I tried the test service that was linked in the bugzilla bug report but
was not able to reproduce the issue.
Do you still see the problem with a recent version of systemd?

That said, I suppose the referenced upstream bug report is about the
same issue and still marked as unfixed. So tentatively marking the bug
as forwarded.

Regards,
Michael

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