Remove After=foreman.target to fix systemd ordering cycles - #21
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After=foreman.target was added in 805217d to ensure systemctl stop foreman.target blocks until all constituent services fully stop, preventing a rapid stop+start race. However, every service is also WantedBy=foreman.target, making After=foreman.target inherently circular: foreman.target cannot finish starting until its Wants are satisfied, but those services cannot start until foreman.target has started. This caused both start and stop ordering cycles, which systemd resolved by dropping jobs — leading to unclean postgresql shutdowns, stale postmaster.pid files, and the very race condition the original fix was trying to prevent. Remove After=foreman.target from all services. Stop ordering is preserved through inter-service After= relationships: all application services are After=redis.service postgresql.service (reversed: redis/postgresql stop after all application services). PartOf=foreman.target ensures services stop when foreman.target stops, and systemctl stop foreman.target waits for the full PartOf-propagated transaction to complete. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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After=foreman.targetdependencies that were causing systemd ordering cycles during service startupTest plan
systemctl statusfor all affected services (candlepin, foreman, foreman_proxy, postgresql, pulp, redis)🤖 Generated with Claude Code