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>
systemctl is-failed "$UNIT_NAME.socket"
assert_eq "$(systemctl show "$UNIT_NAME.socket" -P SubState)" "failed"
-timeout --foreground 60 bash -c "while [[ -d '/tmp/$UNIT_NAME/test' ]]; do sleep .5; done"
+timeout --foreground 60 bash -c "until systemctl is-active TEST-07-PID1-socket-OnFailure.service; do sleep .5; done"
[[ ! -e "/tmp/$UNIT_NAME/test" ]]
-systemctl is-active TEST-07-PID1-socket-OnFailure.service
systemctl start "$UNIT_NAME.socket"
systemctl is-active "$UNIT_NAME.socket"