Bug#940840: systemctl --no-ask-password restart apt-daily-upgrade.timer hangs indefinetely

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 11:13:51PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 20.09.19 um 23:07 schrieb Marc Haber:
> > 118 ippl.service                         start waiting
> 
> Where is this service coming from?

>From the Debian package ippl which still uses a sysv init script

> Can you attach the status / content of this service.

[65/5041]mh at banana:~ $ sudo systemctl status ippl
● ippl.service - LSB: IP protocols logger
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/ippl; generated)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

Sep 20 18:55:58 banana systemd[1]: ippl.service: Reinstalled deserialized job ippl.service/start as 118
Sep 20 18:56:33 banana systemd[1]: ippl.service: Reinstalled deserialized job ippl.service/start as 118
Sep 20 23:17:05 banana systemd[1]: ippl.service: Trying to enqueue job ippl.service/stop/replace
Sep 20 23:17:05 banana systemd[1]: ippl.service: Job 118 ippl.service/start finished, result=canceled
Sep 20 23:17:05 banana systemd[1]: ippl.service: Installed new job ippl.service/stop as 11652
Sep 20 23:17:05 banana systemd[1]: ippl.service: Enqueued job ippl.service/stop as 11652
Sep 20 23:17:05 banana systemd[1]: ippl.service: Job 11652 ippl.service/stop finished, result=done
Sep 20 23:17:17 banana systemd[1]: ippl.service: Trying to enqueue job ippl.service/start/replace
Sep 20 23:17:17 banana systemd[1]: ippl.service: Installed new job ippl.service/start as 11653
Sep 20 23:17:17 banana systemd[1]: ippl.service: Enqueued job ippl.service/start as 11653
3 [66/5042]mh at banana:~ $ sudo systemctl cat ippl
# /run/systemd/generator.late/ippl.service
# Automatically generated by systemd-sysv-generator

[Unit]
Documentation=man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
SourcePath=/etc/init.d/ippl
Description=LSB: IP protocols logger
Before=multi-user.target
Before=multi-user.target
Before=multi-user.target
Before=graphical.target
After=remote-fs.target
After=nss-lookup.target
After=network-online.target
After=time-sync.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=forking
Restart=no
TimeoutSec=5min
IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
KillMode=process
GuessMainPID=no
RemainAfterExit=yes
SuccessExitStatus=5 6
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/ippl start
ExecStop=/etc/init.d/ippl stop
[67/5043]mh at banana:~ $ 

I have put a logger call at the top of the init script, the corresponding log entry never shows up.

Greetings
Marc

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