[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#777113: Bug#777113: invoke-rc.d, service under systemd: Avoid job dependency loops during boot/shutdown

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, May 12, 2015, at 04:09, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Martin Pitt [2015-02-15 16:43 +0100]:
> > +  * service, invoke-rc.d: Avoid deadlocks during bootup and shutdown from
> > +    units/hooks which call "invoke-rc.d service reload" and similar, since the
> > +    synchronous wait plus systemd's normal behaviour of transactionally
> > +    processing all dependencies first easily causes dependency loops. Thus
> > +    during boot/shutdown operate only on the unit and not on its dependencies,
> > +    just like SysV behaves.
> 
> Can we please apply this patch now? It already missed jessie :-/ We do
> have some workarounds in systemd, but they can't cover all cases.

We can still fix it in jessie, provided enough testing is done to be
acceptable by the stable release managers.

So, step one is to get this in unstable, then testing, and test it
throughoutly.

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