busctl hangs and times out when trying to get a nonexistent property from a nonexistent unit #6059
Description
Submission type
- Bug report
systemd version the issue has been seen with
v233, v231, v219
NOTE: Do not submit bug reports about anything but the two most recently released systemd versions upstream!
Used distribution
Fedora 26, Fedora 25, CentOS 7.3
In case of bug report: Expected behaviour you didn't see
An error message similar to the following:
[testuser@fedora-test ~]$ busctl get-property org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1/unit/nonexistent org.freedesktop.systemd1.Service nonexistent
Unit name nonexistent is not valid.
In case of bug report: Unexpected behaviour you saw
busctl hangs and times out:
[testuser@fedora-test ~]$ busctl get-property org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1/unit/nonexistent org.freedesktop.systemd1.Service nonexistent
Connection timed out
localectl and systemctl stop working:
[testuser@fedora-test ~]$ localectl
Could not get properties: Connection timed out
[testuser@fedora-test ~]$ systemctl
Failed to list units: Connection timed out
In case of bug report: Steps to reproduce the problem
Try getting a nonexistent property from a nonexistent unit:
busctl get-property org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1/unit/nonexistent org.freedesktop.systemd1.Service nonexistent