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Bug 1835351 - when enabling service, check if install target exists
Summary: when enabling service, check if install target exists
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: systemd
Version: ---
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: 8.0
Assignee: David Tardon
QA Contact: Frantisek Sumsal
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-13 16:41 UTC by Ondrej
Modified: 2021-11-10 09:48 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: systemd-239-48.el8
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Last Closed: 2021-11-09 19:54:49 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Github systemd-rhel rhel-8 pull 172 0 None open when enabling service, check if install target exists 2021-04-26 10:50:50 UTC
Github systemd systemd pull 19156 0 None open install: warn if WantedBy targets don't exist 2021-04-19 14:29:17 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2021:4469 0 None None None 2021-11-09 19:55:24 UTC

Description Ondrej 2020-05-13 16:41:58 UTC
Description of problem:

In case administrator makes a typo in a service definition, i.e.
{{{
[Install]
WantedBy=multiuser.target
}}}

then when enabling the service via "systemctl enable <service>" systemctl should kindly warn the poor admin that the requested target (multiuser vs multi-user) does not exist and hence the service will NOT be started automatically. 
These errors are quite hard to debug so I think SystemD should do some basic checks.

How reproducible:
always


Actual results:
systemctl blindly creates a link for the not existing target

Expected results:
systemctl should warn the admin that the target does not exist, hence the service can not be enabled

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jan Synacek 2020-05-18 15:36:28 UTC
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15834

Comment 5 Lukáš Nykrýn 2021-06-22 13:01:56 UTC
fix merged to github master branch -> https://github.com/redhat-plumbers/systemd-rhel8/pull/172

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 19:54:49 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 (systemd bug fix and enhancement update), 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:4469


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