I verified that Erkan's .service file crashes current vivid-updates systemd, and works fine (with a proper error message) with the -proposed package.
** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Tags added: verification-done -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1454173 Title: Assertion crash with "ExecStart=- /path" Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in systemd source package in Vivid: Fix Committed Bug description: We simple crash systemd by # cat /etc/systemd/system/crash.service [Unit] Description = Crash Me [Service] ExecStartPre =- /usr/bin/printf pre ExecStart = /usr/bin/printf MAIN # systemctl daemon-reload # systemctl start crash Broadcast message from systemd-journald@infra2 (Tue 2015-05-12 09:28:18 UTC): systemd[1]: Caught <ABRT>, dumped core as pid 4471. Broadcast message from systemd-journald@infra2 (Tue 2015-05-12 09:28:18 UTC): systemd[1]: Freezing execution. Failed to start crash.service: Connection reset by peer Jeah. It is all because of the Typo in ExecStartPre. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1454173/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp