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I facing the same problem (which is similar to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41908660/systemd-always-have-a-service-running-and-reboot-if-service-stops-more-than-x), having following service. I made my service failing every minute (means it does not send notify signal) so service is restarted but it never reboot the system. Any Idea?

[Service]
#Type=simple
Type=notify
NotifyAccess=all
#ExecStartPre=/sbin/modprobe bcm2835-v4l2
ExecStart=/usr/java/default/bin/java -Xms150m -Xmx150m \
-Djava.library.path=/home/pi/opencv-3.1.0/build/lib:/usr/local/src/openalpr/src/bindings/java:/home/pi/compile/raspicam-0.1.3/src/jni/:/home/pi/co
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=3333 \
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false \
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.local.only=false \
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false \
-Djava.rmi.server.hostname=172.16.16.139 \
-jar /home/pi/garageSystem.jar eu /home/pi/alpr.conf /usr/local/src/openalpr/runtime_data/ /home/pi/conf/

Restart=on-failure
#Restart=always
RestartSec=1
WatchdogSec=60s


#OnFailure=systemd-reboot

StartLimitIntervalSec=5m
StartLimitBurst=1
StartLimitAction=force-reboot

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Additional system info

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.9.14-v7+ #977 SMP Mon Mar 13 18:25:19 GMT 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemd --version
systemd 215
+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ -SECCOMP -APPARMOR

Update:

I have probably found solution for my case, when I need to reboot device, when service fail. Since systemd from version 213 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-commits/2014-May/006228.html) supports FailureAction=reboot , which works the same as StartLimitAction but on every fail = thats what I wanted. But it nothing changes, that StartLimitAction does not work. Do u think, it is a bug?

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  • Have you used systemd-analyze verify ./path/to/your/file.service to see if there any warnings or errors with your service file? – Mark Stosberg Mar 18 '17 at 16:20
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According to man systemd.unit, the correct value for StartLimitAction= is reboot-force. But you have used force-reboot, which is not a valid option.

systemd will report this problem if you use systemd-analyze verify:

systemd-analyze verify ./path/to/your/file.service
[/etc/systemd/system/test.service:4] Failed to parse failure action specifier, ignoring: force-reboot
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  • Yes, thats correct! But i was also using only reboot command. but I will verify it – Tomas Bilek Mar 19 '17 at 7:29
  • So i have change it to StartLimitIntervalSec=5m StartLimitBurst=1 StartLimitAction=reboot-force, do nothing, also if StartLimitAction is set to "reboot". Running "systemd-analyze verify garage.service" gives output "Unknown operation 'verify'." I have checked manual and there is not such commend – Tomas Bilek Mar 19 '17 at 7:37
  • Just one more question, is there any "internal" log of systemd where is written, what is it performing? I mean, that if there is something what could tell me StartLimitBurst was reached and StartLimitAction is performed? – Tomas Bilek Mar 19 '17 at 8:25
  • You can use journalctl to read the systemd journal. I don't know what it will log about those actions. You'll have to check /etc/systemd/journald.conf` to confirm the systemd journald logs are persisting through reboots. – Mark Stosberg Mar 19 '17 at 12:49
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    OK, i will try to update it, but before posting I have performed all update commands, so I will try to update it to the latest one and return back. But thank you anyway. – Tomas Bilek Mar 21 '17 at 7:56

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