Re: How to debug systemd script?

[Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2016-03-29 at 02:33 +1300, chrisb@localhost.localdomain wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > How can I find out what is going on to stop the normal init script
> > from
> > working? Is there some way to force systemctl to log what it is
> > doing?
> > If it does log, where does it put the log?
> See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731862
> 
> Near the very end it suggests:
> strace -f -o /tmp/strace.log -s 2048 -p 1 & systemctl restart
> postgresql.service

In fact the other suggestion there, of suppressing the redirect to
systemctl, proved helpful. the problem is actually in postgresql-
common, in a Perl script.

Thanks