systemctl: make shutdown operations use irreversible jobs

Occasionally people report problem with reboot/poweroff operations hanging in
the middle. One known cause is when a new transaction to start a unit is
enqueued while the shutdown is going on. The start of the unit conflicts with
the shutdown jobs, so they get cancelled. The failure case can be quite unpleasant,
becase getty and sshd may already be stopped.

Fix it by using irreversible jobs for shutdown (reboot/poweroff/...) actions.
This applies to commands like "reboot", "telinit 6", "systemctl reboot". Should
someone desire to use reversible jobs, they can say "systemctl start reboot.target".`
This commit is contained in:
Michal Schmidt 2013-02-22 11:21:47 +01:00
parent 23ade460e5
commit b85bdddafb
3 changed files with 25 additions and 14 deletions

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@ -1006,8 +1006,8 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<term><command>halt</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>Shut down and halt the system. This is mostly
equivalent to <command>start halt.target</command> but also
<para>Shut down and halt the system. This is mostly equivalent to
<command>start halt.target --irreversible</command> but also
prints a wall message to all users. If combined with
<option>--force</option> shutdown of all running services is
skipped, however all processes are killed and all file
@ -1023,8 +1023,8 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<listitem>
<para>Shut down and power-off the system. This is mostly
equivalent to <command>start poweroff.target</command> but
also prints a wall message to all users. If combined with
equivalent to <command>start poweroff.target --irreversible</command>
but also prints a wall message to all users. If combined with
<option>--force</option> shutdown of all running services is
skipped, however all processes are killed and all file
systems are unmounted or mounted read-only, immediately
@ -1039,8 +1039,8 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<listitem>
<para>Shut down and reboot the system. This is mostly
equivalent to <command>start reboot.target</command> but
also prints a wall message to all users. If combined with
equivalent to <command>start reboot.target --irreversible</command>
but also prints a wall message to all users. If combined with
<option>--force</option> shutdown of all running services is
skipped, however all processes are killed and all file
systems are unmounted or mounted read-only, immediately
@ -1055,7 +1055,7 @@ along with systemd; If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
<listitem>
<para>Shut down and reboot the system via kexec. This is
mostly equivalent to <command>start kexec.target</command>
mostly equivalent to <command>start kexec.target --irreversible</command>
but also prints a wall message to all users. If combined
with <option>--force</option> shutdown of all running
services is skipped, however all processes are killed and

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@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ static int execute_shutdown_or_sleep(
DBusError *error) {
_cleanup_dbus_message_unref_ DBusMessage *reply = NULL;
const char *mode = "replace", *p;
const char *mode = "replace-irreversibly", *p;
int r;
char *c;

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@ -1595,11 +1595,22 @@ static int start_unit(DBusConnection *bus, char **args) {
streq(args[0], "force-reload") ? "ReloadOrTryRestartUnit" :
"StartUnit";
mode =
(streq(args[0], "isolate") ||
streq(args[0], "rescue") ||
streq(args[0], "emergency") ||
streq(args[0], "default")) ? "isolate" : arg_job_mode;
if (streq(args[0], "isolate") ||
streq(args[0], "rescue") ||
streq(args[0], "emergency") ||
streq(args[0], "default"))
mode = "isolate";
else if (streq(args[0], "halt") ||
streq(args[0], "poweroff") ||
streq(args[0], "reboot") ||
streq(args[0], "kexec") ||
streq(args[0], "exit") ||
streq(args[0], "suspend") ||
streq(args[0], "hibernate") ||
streq(args[0], "hybrid-sleep"))
mode = "replace-irreversibly";
else
mode = arg_job_mode;
one_name = table[verb_to_action(args[0])];
@ -1614,7 +1625,7 @@ static int start_unit(DBusConnection *bus, char **args) {
arg_action == ACTION_RUNLEVEL2 ||
arg_action == ACTION_RUNLEVEL3 ||
arg_action == ACTION_RUNLEVEL4 ||
arg_action == ACTION_RUNLEVEL5) ? "isolate" : "replace";
arg_action == ACTION_RUNLEVEL5) ? "isolate" : "replace-irreversibly";
one_name = table[arg_action];
}