Package: init-system-helpers Version: 1.48 I stumbled upon a issue with the start/stop triggers when using systemd socket templates on Debian stretch. I started getting unrelated error messages when entering `service some_service start` on a system which has a systemd socket template defined. The issue is quite easy to replicate:
``` # touch /etc/systemd/system/test@.socket # service cron start Failed to get properties: Unit name test@.socket is not valid. ``` I have tracked down the issue to line 205 in /usr/sbin/service. (line 182 in 1.51) ``` for unit in $(systemctl list-unit-files --full --type=socket 2>/dev/null | sed -ne 's/\.socket\s*[a-z]*\s*$/.socket/p'); do if [ "$(systemctl -p Triggers show $unit)" ``` Here it gets all unit files and then tries to show get the Triggers of that unit. This not only causes the error message shown above, it also causes not stopping the actual socket units like it is described in the comment above line 205. The issue could be solved by using `list-units` instead of `list-unit-files` because `list-units` will only list actual socket units and not their templates. Tested on Debian GNU/Linux 9.3 kernel 4.9.65-3+deb9u2.