Bug 1016680

Summary: MSG: add hint about 'reset-failed' when systemctl start fails due to rate limit
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt>
Component: systemdAssignee: Michal Sekletar <msekleta>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Tereza Cerna <tcerna>
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Version: 7.0CC: jscotka, lnykryn, msekleta, psklenar, riehecky, systemd-maint-list, vpavlin
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Last Closed: 2015-11-19 14:55:26 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Michal Schmidt 2013-10-08 14:13:22 UTC 
(This is related to bug 821723, which asked for ignoring the services' rate limit for systemctl invocations, but was closed as NOTABUG.)

Currently when "systemctl restart foo.service" fails due to the rate limit, a generic error message is printed:

  Job for foo.service failed. See 'systemctl status foo.service'
  and 'journalctl -xn' for details.

In http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006530.html Lennart suggested a more helpful error message should be shown:

"Starting foobar.service has been attempted too often too quickly, the
repeated start of the unit has been refused. To force a start please
invoke 'systemctl reset-failed foobar.service' followed by 'systemctl
start foobar.service' again."


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-208-2.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. for i in $(seq 1 10); do systemctl restart sshd; done
2.
3.

Actual results:
A generic error message.

Expected results:
A helpful error message that mentions the possibility of using "reset-failed".
Comment 4 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-05-29 11:30:25 UTC 
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=d5cad22109749faffb7563e4b2a3a728486d47b5
Comment 5 Lukáš Nykrýn 2015-05-29 12:13:17 UTC 
https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/commit/8946c35e525c2a14b12ed425f11af152e37d8583
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 14:55:26 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2092.html