The test waited for the OnFailure= service's filesystem side effect (`rmdir` of the directory) and then immediately invoked `systemctl is-active`. Between `rmdir(2)` returning (which causes the shell loop to exit) and PID1 reaping the child and transitioning the oneshot service from `activating` to `active`, there is a small window where `is-active` can observe `activating` and fail the test. Wait directly on the unit state instead, matching the pattern used a few lines above for the `is-failed` case. [ 1880.326704] TEST-07-PID1.sh[21489]: + timeout --foreground 60 bash -c 'while [[ -d '\''/tmp/TEST-07-PID1-socket-8467/test'\'' ]]; do sleep .5; done' [ 1880.330482] TEST-07-PID1.sh[21489]: + [[ ! -e /tmp/TEST-07-PID1-socket-8467/test ]] [ 1880.330482] TEST-07-PID1.sh[21489]: + systemctl is-active TEST-07-PID1-socket-OnFailure.service [ 1880.347470] TEST-07-PID1.sh[21520]: activating [ 1880.349508] TEST-07-PID1.sh[21489]: + at_exit [ 1880.349508] TEST-07-PID1.sh[21489]: + systemctl stop TEST-07-PID1-socket-8467.socket [ 1880.367331] TEST-07-PID1.sh[107]: Subtest /usr/lib/systemd/tests/testdata/units/TEST-07-PID1.socket-on-failure.sh failed [ 1880.367331] TEST-07-PID1.sh[107]: + return 1 Co-developed-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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