"systemctl start php5-fpm.service" failes due to timeout of systemd-tty-ask-password-agent

[Alexander Löhner]

I've filed this bug also already on the bugtracker of systemd here:
--> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90294

But for your information and maybe because it is more Ubuntu related than systemd related, here is the whole bug description again:

I've recently upgraded my Ubuntu box from 14.04 to 15.04 where systemd is now used as the default.

Unfortunatly starting or restarting of service php5-fpm doesn't work. It hangs 3 minutes and then it gets a timeout.

This seems to be caused by a process "/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent --watch" which was called by "systemctl start php5-fpm.service".

It seems to wait for user input, but there is nothing to submit such an input.

Following the outputs of various things in cronological order:

~ $ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
Codename: vivid

~ $ ps auxwww --forest
   -> http://pastebin.com/LkbmNtKi

~ $ systemctl list-jobs
~ $ systemctl show
   -> http://pastebin.com/WaUGmnMV

~ $ systemctl start php5-fpm.service
Job for php5-fpm.service failed. See "systemctl status php5-fpm.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
~ $

during the command above runs, I've also created some output:
~ $ ps auxwww --forest
~ $ systemctl list-jobs
~ $ systemctl show
   -> http://pastebin.com/kxzhNTLT

After 3 minutes the start failed with a timeout and then:

~ $ systemctl status php5-fpm.service
~ $ systemctl list-jobs
~ $ systemctl show
~ $ lsb_release -a
~ $ dpkg -l | grep ii | grep systemd
~ $ ps aux | grep -i systemd
  -> http://pastebin.com/eCgb4Y0W

If you need further information, please let me know.

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[Alexander Löhner (alex-mieland)]

by the way: The try above was made just right after a complete reboot.

Starting the service manually with...

~ $ /usr/sbin/php5-fpm --nodaemonize --fpm-config /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf

...works.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Lukas Brückner (2-me-8)]

I can confirm this issue. But I believe it is related to the version from ondrej (https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php5-5.6).

Reverting to version 5.6.4+dfsg-4ubuntu6 (the one packaged with 15.04) resolved the problem. Over at his issue tracker there is a similar bug posted. https://github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/65

[Alexander Löhner (alex-mieland)]

I can confirm that what Lukas has written in comment #4. After removing the PPA from Ondrej and downgading PHP5 to the official version from the ubuntu repositories, everything works.

So this is Ondrejs problem.