Bug 998615

Summary:	RFE: systemd should report errors in [Install] section better
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	sakodak
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	systemd-maint
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	johannbg, lnykryn, msekleta, plautrba, sakodak, systemd-maint, vpavlin, zbyszek
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Description sakodak 2013-08-19 15:30:00 UTC

Description of problem:

Attempted to create a new service and I had a typo in the "Install" stanza.  Instead of telling me there was a problem in the "Install" stanza I received the following message:

Failed to issue method call: Invalid argument

It took may way longer than was necessary to find the typo (my eyesight isn't the greatest, and I had multi-user-target instead of multi-user.target).

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

systemd-204-9.fc19

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create a new service, have a typo in the WantedBy= directive in the [Install] stanza.
2.  Attempt to enable service.
3.

Actual results:

Given non-useful error message of:

Failed to issue method call: Invalid argument

Expected results:

Should say something like:

Invalid target declared in WantedBy (or something similar.)

Additional info:

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