Bug 1370299

Summary:	Cannot start a .slice via dbus api StartTransientUnit
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Derek Carr <decarr>
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	systemd-maint
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Branislav Blaškovič <bblaskov>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	bblaskov, eparis, msekleta, ovasik, systemd-maint-list
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Description Derek Carr 2016-08-25 20:48:19 UTC

Description of problem:

I am unable to use the systemd dbus API to start a slice as a transient unit.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Invoke StartTransientUnit with a .slice unit using the dbus API
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Actual results:
Unit type slice does not support transient units.

Expected results:
A transient unit of type slice is started.

Additional info:

This appears to be functional in systemd v229, but not in systemd v219 or v222 when tested.  

This feature is needed by OpenShift to support quality of service and pod-level cgroup isolation features.

The commit that appeared to introduce the fix that requires backporting is here:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/17f62e9bd00f5fefd486475861b06d3ec6b7ee10

From PR:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/1886

Comment 2 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-08-30 08:32:11 UTC

Seems to be easy to backport -> devel_ack

Comment 3 Branislav Blaškovič 2016-09-01 11:12:29 UTC

qa acking

Comment 4 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-09-05 13:50:37 UTC

fix merged to upstream staging branch ->
https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/commit/6163df0aef6488967ab07e95ffb0e9b3c30bfaa9
https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/commit/e360c720533dccac39d8b88510b15c21a944b042
-> post

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 00:56:32 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-2016-2216.html