On Mo, 13.05.19 07:48, Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> I guess it's not a file named "Reason" that's missing. Despite of my > >> recommendation to create helpful error messages, can you explain what it > > means? > >> Even after an strace I could not find out what is missing. > >> > > > > It means that unit definition file (iotwatch.target) was not found in > > any directory where systemd looks for it. > > The confusing part is that something that cannot be found is "active" for 18 > minutes ;-) If you start a unit, then remove its unit file it remains started but the unit file cannot be found anymore. We try to make the best of it: leave the service running as well as possible, but will tell you the unit file is now absent. Of course, it's not a good idea to remove a unit file while a service is still running, but we cannot really stop you from doing so, this being UNIX and all... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel