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Bug 1362461 - 'systemctl status' returns 0 for failed services
Summary: 'systemctl status' returns 0 for failed services
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: systemd
Version: 7.3
Hardware: All
OS: Unspecified
high
medium
Target Milestone: beta
: ---
Assignee: systemd-maint
QA Contact: Frantisek Sumsal
Lucie Vařáková
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks: 1362179
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-08-02 09:11 UTC by Stanislav Zidek
Modified: 2016-11-04 00:55 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: systemd-219-25.el7
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Last Closed: 2016-11-04 00:55:30 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2016:2216 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE systemd bug fix and enhancement update 2016-11-03 13:24:51 UTC

Description Stanislav Zidek 2016-08-02 09:11:49 UTC 
Description of problem:
When I unsuccessfully start a service and then query for status, I start to get zero exit code in RHEL-7.3.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-219-24.el7

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. echo 'AuthenticationMethods bogusoption' >>/etc/ssh/sshd_config
2. systemctl restart sshd
3. systemctl status sshd
4. echo $?

Actual results:
...
# echo $?
0

Expected results:
...
# echo $?
3
(or something else non-zero)

Additional info:
* I set priority to high, because I can imagine this might break e.g. some monitoring scripts etc.
* Old version I was comparing to is systemd-219-19.el7
Comment 3 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-08-02 13:52:25 UTC 
This got broken with https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/commit/41bb37959c96b8fddc13b37384b3453393517f4f

Upstream has the same problem:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/3864
Comment 5 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-08-03 08:22:24 UTC 
Lathough this bug sounds scary, the im pact is quite limited, this is only a problem for services, that have Restart=on-failure and big RestartSec. Those services are not in failed state, because systemd is trying to start them again.

Anyway, I have send a patch to upstream to consider such services as PROGRAM_NOT_RUNNING. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3874
Comment 6 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-08-03 11:48:42 UTC 
The second version of the patch still waits to be merged in upstream, but setting an optimistic devel_ack for that patch.
Comment 7 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-08-04 08:38:29 UTC 
pushed to staging ->
https://github.com/lnykryn/systemd-rhel/commit/94fec84897ab40bf2bc92f0d395a93ecac1b45be
-> post
Comment 9 Frantisek Sumsal 2016-08-16 11:53:56 UTC 
Verified on RHEL 7.3 Beta with systemd-219-26.el7.

Old package:
# echo 'AuthenticationMethods garbage' >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# systemctl restart sshd
Job for sshd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status sshd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
# systemctl status sshd
● sshd.service - OpenSSH server daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-08-16 07:50:09 EDT; 5s ago
     Docs: man:sshd(8)
           man:sshd_config(5)
  Process: 1297 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sshd $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=255)
 Main PID: 907 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Aug 16 07:50:09 qeos-178 systemd[1]: sshd.service: control process ex...5
Aug 16 07:50:09 qeos-178 systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenSSH server d....
Aug 16 07:50:09 qeos-178 systemd[1]: Unit sshd.service entered failed....
Aug 16 07:50:09 qeos-178 systemd[1]: sshd.service failed.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
# echo $?
0

New package:
# echo 'AuthenticationMethods garbage' >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
# systemctl restart sshd
Job for sshd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status sshd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
# systemctl status sshd
● sshd.service - OpenSSH server daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-08-16 07:46:20 EDT; 10s ago
     Docs: man:sshd(8)
           man:sshd_config(5)
  Process: 4121 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sshd $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=255)
 Main PID: 3829 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Aug 16 07:46:20 qeos-176 systemd[1]: sshd.service: control process ex...5
Aug 16 07:46:20 qeos-176 systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenSSH server d....
Aug 16 07:46:20 qeos-176 systemd[1]: Unit sshd.service entered failed....
Aug 16 07:46:20 qeos-176 systemd[1]: sshd.service failed.
Aug 16 07:46:20 qeos-176 sshd[4121]: Unknown authentication method "g...t
Aug 16 07:46:20 qeos-176 sshd[4121]: /etc/ssh/sshd_config line 154: i....
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
# echo $?
3
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-04 00:55:30 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
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