Hello,
When a service fails but is auto restarted by systemd due to Restart= it still goes through “failed” state before entering “activating" state. For example this is ActiveState and SubState of a service that when running fails three times before it fails to be restarted due to StartLimitBurst=, as reported by org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged signal.
active running
failed failed
activating auto-restart
inactive dead
active running
failed failed
activating auto-restart
inactive dead
active running
failed failed
activating auto-restart
inactive dead
failed failed
I was reading the following documentation and I thought that service will enter “failed” state only after it can’t be restarted anymore:
“Note that service restart is subject to unit start rate limiting configured with StartLimitIntervalSec= and StartLimitBurst=, see systemd.unit(5)
for details. A restarted service enters the failed state only after the start limits are reached."
So I would assume there would be only one "failed" right at the end.
Do I understand this sentence wrong?
Przemyslaw
