Description of problem: When booting up, the systemd portreserve claims failure. Investigating the log and configuration reveals: - there are no ports to reserve - /sbin/portreserve quits right away with exit status 0: $ sudo systemctl status portreserve.service portreserve.service - Port reservation utility Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/portreserve.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: resources) since Sun, 2013-01-20 11:55:14 CET; 2min 5s ago Process: 513 ExecStart=/sbin/portreserve (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/portreserve.service Jan 20 11:55:14 fed.example.org systemd[1]: Failed to start Port reservati.... Jan 20 11:55:14 fed.example.org systemd[1]: Unit portreserve.service enter...e Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): portreserve-0.0.5-5.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. reboot 2. during plymouth boot animation, press [Esc] to see boot messages Actual results: Expected results: If there are no ports to reserve and the /sbin/portreserve executable exits successfully right away, this should be logged as OK. Additional info:
This is due to a race condition between portreserve and systemd. The portreserve service has written its PID file, realised there is nothing to do, removed its PID file again and exited. Meanwhile, systemd is looking for the PID file but doesn't see it at the right time: either it misses it altogether, or it sees it when the file has been created but is empty. A safe work-around is for portreserve to delay for a moment before exiting.
portreserve-0.0.5-9.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/portreserve-0.0.5-9.fc20
portreserve-0.0.5-9.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/portreserve-0.0.5-9.fc19
portreserve-0.0.5-9.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/portreserve-0.0.5-9.fc18
Package portreserve-0.0.5-9.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing portreserve-0.0.5-9.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-22275/portreserve-0.0.5-9.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
portreserve-0.0.5-9.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
portreserve-0.0.5-9.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.