Your Linux Service Is Running but the Application Is Down: Here's Why?

Systemd says your daemon is active and healthy, yet every request fails. Here is what is actually broken inside the kernel and how to pinpoint the real failure in under two minutes.

The most deceptive line in Linux systems administration is Active: active (running).

You get paged in the middle of the night because an ingress proxy is returning 502 Bad Gateway and 504 Gateway Timeout errors to end users. You SSH into the affected node, run a status check on the background daemon, and see a comforting green indicator:

systemctl status payments-api.service

● payments-api.service - Payments Gateway Engine
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/payments-api.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2026-10-05 04:12:00 UTC; 6 days ago
   Main PID: 18492 (node)
      Tasks: 11 (limit: 4915)
     Memory: 412.4M
        CPU: 1min 22.418s
     CGroup: /system.slice/payments-api.service
             └─18492 /usr/bin/node /opt/payments/dist/server.js

The process ID is present. The memory footprint looks steady. The CPU counters tick upward. Systemd insists that everything is running smoothly.

Then you test the local HTTP endpoint directly on the box:

curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8080/health

The terminal hangs. Ten seconds pass. Thirty seconds pass. Then curl aborts with a connection timeout or an empty reply.

Why does systemd report that your service is running smoothly when the application is completely dead to incoming traffic?

Because systemd is a process supervisor, not an application health inspector.

To systemd and the Linux kernel, a service is active as long as its designated main process ID exists in the kernel task table and has not emitted an exit signal. The kernel does not know that your event loop is frozen, that your socket accept queue is dropping packets, that worker threads are deadlocked on database connections, or that the process hit its file descriptor ceiling three hours ago.

When an active service stops serving requests, one of several specific system-level failures is happening behind that green status message.

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Process Liveness vs. Socket Readiness

To understand why this disconnect happens, look at how the Linux kernel separates process execution from network communication.

When systemd launches a unit configured with the default Type=simple, it issues a fork() system call followed by execve(). As soon as the kernel loads the binary into memory and assigns a process ID, systemd marks the unit as active.

Your application, however, is nowhere near ready to handle traffic.

Before an application can service a single network packet, it must execute a sequence of network system calls:

int fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
bind(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr));
listen(fd, backlog);
int client_fd = accept(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&client_addr, &client_len);

Between execve() and the first invocation of accept(), an application often parses gigabytes of configuration data, connects to message queues, runs database schema checks, or pre-allocates memory buffers.

If any of those internal initialization steps block indefinitely, the process remains in memory forever. Systemd sees a running PID and reports green. But the socket either does not exist, was bound to the wrong interface, or has an accept queue that no thread is reading.

The green status tells you that a binary is taking up space in RAM. It tells you nothing about whether the process is capable of servicing work.

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Failure 1: Listen Backlog Saturation and the Accept Queue Overflow

This is the most common reason an application stops responding while showing normal CPU usage.

When a client establishes a TCP connection with a server, the Linux kernel handles the initial three-way handshake entirely inside kernel space, without waiting for the application code.

The kernel maintains two distinct queues for every listening socket:

First, the SYN Queue (or incomplete connection queue). When a client sends a TCP SYN packet, the kernel stores the half-open connection here and replies with SYN-ACK. The maximum size of this queue is controlled by the kernel parameter net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog.

Second, the Accept Queue (or listen backlog). Once the client returns the final ACK packet, the three-way handshake is complete. The connection transitions to the ESTABLISHED state inside the kernel. The kernel then moves the socket into the Accept Queue.

The connection sits in this queue until your application calls accept() or accept4().

Now consider what happens when your application freezes. Maybe the Python Global Interpreter Lock is stuck, a synchronous database driver blocked the main Node.js event loop, or every worker thread in a Java pool is waiting on an external API call without a timeout.

The application stops calling accept().

New connections continue completing the TCP handshake in the kernel. The Accept Queue fills up until it hits the backlog limit defined in the application's listen(fd, backlog) system call.

Once the Accept Queue is completely full (sk_ack_backlog >= sk_max_ack_backlog), the kernel cannot queue any more connections.

What does the kernel do with new incoming connections?

By default, Linux silently drops the final ACK packet from the client. The kernel parameter /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_abort_on_overflow defaults to 0. The kernel pretends it never received the ACK, hoping that the application will clear the backlog before the client gives up.

The client socket thinks the connection is established. It sends its HTTP request bytes. The server kernel ignores them. The client sits waiting until its read timeout fires, producing a 504 Gateway Timeout or a dropped connection.

If tcp_abort_on_overflow is set to 1, the server immediately responds with a TCP Reset (RST) packet, producing an instant Connection reset by peer or 502 Bad Gateway.

You can diagnose an accept queue overflow in five seconds with ss:

ss -lnt '( sport = :8080 )'

Look closely at the output columns:

State      Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port
LISTEN     129    128    0.0.0.0:8080       0.0.0.0:*

On an established TCP socket, Recv-Q represents the bytes received from the network that the application has not yet read from the socket buffer.

On a LISTEN socket, the meaning of these two columns changes completely:

Send-Q displays the maximum listen backlog configured for that socket (the second argument passed to listen(), capped by /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn).

Recv-Q displays the exact number of connections currently sitting in the kernel Accept Queue waiting for the application to invoke accept().

In the output above, Recv-Q is 129 and Send-Q is 128. The Accept Queue has overflowed. The application is completely deaf.

You can verify how many connections the kernel has dropped due to listen queue overflow by querying the kernel network statistics:

nstat -az TcpExtListenOverflows TcpExtListenDrops

Sample output:

#metric                     value      type
TcpExtListenOverflows       48291      0.0
TcpExtListenDrops           48291      0.0

If those numbers are ticking upward, your service process is alive in the eyes of systemd, but its connection queue is a dead end.

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Failure 2: The Binding Blindspot (Localhost, IPv6, and Interface Isolation)

Another common cause of the ghost outage is socket interface mismatch.

An application developer updates a configuration file or deploys a framework upgrade. The application starts cleanly, reports success, and listens on port 8080. But your Nginx reverse proxy running on the same server, or a cloud load balancer querying the node's private VPC IP, gets Connection refused on every request.

Why? The application bound to the loopback interface (127.0.0.1) instead of the wildcard interface (0.0.0.0).

When an application calls bind() with 127.0.0.1, the Linux kernel routes packets to that socket only if they originate from the local loopback adapter lo. If a proxy forwards traffic to the server's private network interface (for example, 10.0.4.12:8080), the kernel inspects the destination IP, finds no socket listening on that specific address, and returns a TCP RST packet immediately.

The reverse proxy logs:

[error] 1421#1421: *89 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 198.51.100.4, server: api.example.com, upstream: "http://10.0.4.12:8080/health"

Check the exact binding address using ss:

ss -tlpn '( sport = :8080 )'

Compare these two outputs:

# Broken: Only accepts connections directed to localhost
LISTEN 0 128 127.0.0.1:8080 0.0.0.0:* users:(("node",pid=18492,fd=19))

# Working: Accepts connections on all IPv4 interfaces
LISTEN 0 128 0.0.0.0:8080   0.0.0.0:* users:(("node",pid=18492,fd=19))

There is an even trickier variant involving IPv6 dual-stack sockets.

When an application binds to the IPv6 wildcard address [::]:8080, Linux can handle both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic over that single socket by mapping IPv4 addresses into the IPv6 space (::ffff:192.0.2.1).

However, this behavior depends on the sysctl setting net.ipv6.bindv6only. If that value is set to 1, or if the application explicitly passed the IPV6_V6ONLY socket option when creating the file descriptor:

int opt = 1;
setsockopt(fd, IPPROTO_IPV6, IPV6_V6ONLY, &opt, sizeof(opt));

The socket will accept IPv6 traffic only. Any client or local proxy attempting to connect via IPv4 127.0.0.1:8080 receives an instant Connection refused, even while ss shows the service listening on [::]:8080.

Verify this behavior by issuing curl calls explicitly over both protocol families:

curl -v -4 http://localhost:8080/health
curl -v -6 http://localhost:8080/health

If the IPv6 command succeeds while the IPv4 command fails, you have isolated the binding trap.

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Failure 3: The Uninterruptible Sleep Lockup (D State and Kernel I/O Stalls)

Run a process check with ps and examine the process state column:

ps -eo pid,stat,wchan:20,comm | grep -E "(payments|PID)"

Look at the STAT output:

    PID STAT WCHAN                COMMAND
  18492 D    nfs_wait_bit_uninter payments-api

Notice the letter D.

In Linux, process state D stands for TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.

When a process is in state S (TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE), it is simply sleeping, waiting for a timer or an event, and will wake up immediately if a signal arrives.

When a process enters state D, it is executing a system call inside the kernel and waiting on a hardware or filesystem event that cannot be interrupted. The kernel deliberately blocks all signals from reaching the process while it is in this state.

Even kill -9 (SIGKILL) cannot kill a process in state D. The kernel queues the signal, but it will not deliver it until the process returns from the kernel system call back into user space.

If the underlying resource never responds, the process stays frozen in D state indefinitely.

Common triggers for this state in production include:

• A shared NFS, Ceph, or SMB network mount that became unresponsive or dropped network packets during a write operation.
• A cloud block storage volume experiencing acute I/O throttling or hypervisor-level storage timeouts.
• Memory allocation stalls where the kernel is attempting synchronous page reclaim while the swap device is saturated.

Because the process is blocked inside a kernel driver, its user space threads cannot execute. It cannot process incoming socket buffers. It cannot emit error logs. It cannot shut down.

To see exactly what kernel function is trapping your process, inspect the kernel stack file in /proc:

cat /proc/18492/stack

Sample output:

[<0>] nfs_wait_bit_uninterruptible+0x2c/0x40 [nfs]
[<0>] nfs_wait_on_request+0x35/0x40 [nfs]
[<0>] nfs_updatepage+0x180/0x8d0 [nfs]
[<0>] nfs_write_end+0x7b/0x2c0 [nfs]
[<0>] generic_perform_write+0xd2/0x190
[<0>] __generic_file_write_iter+0xda/0x1e0
[<0>] nfs_file_write+0xa1/0x1b0 [nfs]
[<0>] vfs_write+0x21c/0x3f0
[<0>] ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
[<0>] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x90
[<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

This stack trace pinpoints the issue instantly: the application thread attempted a write() system call against an NFS mount, and the NFS client driver is blocked waiting on an unacknowledged RPC request.

No amount of restarting via systemctl restart will fix this until the NFS server recovers, because the restart command will block indefinitely waiting for the existing PID to exit.

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Failure 4: File Descriptor Exhaustion and the Silent EMFILE Loop

In Linux, virtually every input/output channel is represented as a file descriptor. Sockets, open log files, epoll instances, database connections, and pipes all consume slots in the process file descriptor table.

Every process has a maximum limit of open file descriptors, defined by the RLIMIT_NOFILE resource limit.

When a process attempts to accept a new network connection via accept4() or open a connection to an upstream service via socket() while its descriptor table is full, the kernel returns error code 24:

EMFILE: Too many open files

Well-behaved production servers should handle this cleanly. In reality, many application runtimes and frameworks handle EMFILE in an unexpected way:

They catch the exception in an internal network listener loop to prevent the process from crashing. Inside the catch block, they write a warning to a log file, sleep for 20 to 100 milliseconds, and try again.

If the file descriptor leak is permanent (for example, leaked HTTP client sockets that were never closed after an upstream timeout), the application enters an infinite loop:

The accept queue stays backed up. The application refuses to pull incoming connections off the queue because it has no free descriptors to allocate for them. The process CPU usage drops to zero.

The service is running. It just cannot communicate.

Check the limits of the running process:

cat /proc/18492/limits | grep "Max open files"

Max open files            1024                 1024                 files

Notice the soft and hard limit: 1024. This is the historic default limit on many Linux distributions when not explicitly raised.

Now count how many descriptors the process currently has allocated:

ls -1 /proc/18492/fd | wc -l

If that number reads 1024, your process has exhausted its quota.

To see what is consuming those descriptors, categorize them with lsof:

lsof -p 18492 | awk '{print $5}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

Sample output:

    982 IPv4
     28 REG
     10 FIFO
      4 DIR

In this case, 982 descriptors are IPv4 sockets. You can drill down further to see which remote addresses those sockets are connected to:

lsof -p 18492 -a -i 4 | awk '{print $9}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10

If you see hundreds of sockets stuck in CLOSE_WAIT connected to an internal microservice, your application has a resource leak: the remote service closed the connection, but your application code never called close() on the socket descriptor.

To prevent systemd services from hitting the restrictive default descriptor limit, configure LimitNOFILE directly in the unit file:

[Service]
LimitNOFILE=65535

Apply the change and restart the daemon:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart payments-api.service

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Failure 5: Worker Deadlocks and Thread Pool Starvation

Modern web applications rarely use a single monolithic process to service traffic. Architectures like Gunicorn (Python), Puma (Ruby), PHP-FPM, or cluster modules in Node.js follow a master-worker model.

The master process (PID 1200) runs as root or an unprivileged application user. Its sole responsibility is to spawn, monitor, and restart worker processes (PIDs 1201, 1202, 1203, 1204).

Systemd monitors the master process.

Now suppose your application pool runs four worker processes. A deployment introduces an unindexed database query, or an external billing API slows down from 50 milliseconds to 30 seconds per request.

Incoming HTTP requests hit worker 1, worker 2, worker 3, and worker 4.

Each worker issues a synchronous database query or an un-timed HTTP call. All four workers block on network input from their respective backends.

The fifth incoming request arrives. The master process is not designed to service HTTP requests directly. All four workers are fully saturated and blocked.

The incoming request sits in the socket listen queue until the client times out.

Systemd checks the master process PID 1200. The master process is completely healthy, consuming 0% CPU, waiting for a SIGCHLD signal that never arrives because none of the workers have crashed.

How do you diagnose this condition?

Trace what the worker processes are actively doing using strace:

strace -p 1201 -s 128

If the worker is responsive and servicing traffic, you will see a rapid stream of system calls: epoll_wait, read, write, close.

If the worker is deadlocked or waiting indefinitely, strace prints one line and halts:

recvfrom(12, 

The process is stuck waiting for data on file descriptor 12. Check what file descriptor 12 points to:

ls -l /proc/1201/fd/12

lrwx------ 1 app app 64 Oct 11 05:20 /proc/1201/fd/12 -> socket:[382910]

Now match the socket inode 382910 against ss:

ss -tanp | grep 382910

ESTAB 0 0 10.0.4.12:44920 10.0.10.50:5432 users:(("payments-api",pid=1201,fd=12))

Port 5432 is PostgreSQL. Your application worker is waiting on a response from your database server.

By following the socket from strace through /proc/<pid>/fd to ss, you bypassed guesswork and identified that the application is hanging on database query latency.

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Failure 6: The Shell Wrapper PID Illusion

This failure is a classic misconfiguration in homegrown systemd service units.

An engineer writes a shell wrapper script to handle environment variables or pre-launch checks:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# /opt/payments/start.sh

source /opt/payments/env.sh
java -Xmx4g -jar /opt/payments/app.jar &
tail -f /dev/null

And configures the systemd service unit like this:

[Unit]
Description=Payments Service

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/opt/payments/start.sh
User=app

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Look at what happens during execution:

Systemd launches /opt/payments/start.sh. The kernel assigns PID 5100 to the bash script.

Inside the script, the java binary is launched in the background with &. The kernel assigns PID 5101 to Java.

The shell script then executes tail -f /dev/null to stay open.

Three hours later, the Java process encounters an unhandled runtime error, hits an out-of-memory exception, and terminates.

PID 5101 is dead. The port is closed.

What does systemd report?

systemctl status checks PID 5100 (the bash shell script) or its child tail. Both are still executing happily.

Systemd displays Active: active (running). The application has been offline for hours, but systemd has no idea because it was never configured to track the Java process.

Fix this anti-pattern using one of two techniques:

First, replace the shell process with the application binary using the shell exec builtin:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
source /opt/payments/env.sh
exec java -Xmx4g -jar /opt/payments/app.jar

exec instructs the shell to replace its own process image in memory with the target binary. The PID remains 5100, but the process executing is now Java. When Java exits, PID 5100 terminates immediately, allowing systemd to detect the exit code and trigger restart policies.

Second, avoid shell wrappers entirely whenever possible. Set environment files and paths directly inside the unit file:

[Service]
Type=simple
EnvironmentFile=/opt/payments/env.conf
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -Xmx4g -jar /opt/payments/app.jar
Restart=on-failure

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Failure 7: Reverse Proxy Permission Mismatches on Unix Domain Sockets

Many high-performance web deployments connect Nginx or Envoy to application backends over Unix domain sockets rather than TCP loopback connections. Unix sockets avoid the overhead of TCP packet headers, checksums, and network buffers.

However, Unix domain sockets are subject to standard Linux filesystem permissions.

An application starts cleanly under its own system user account (payments:payments). It creates a socket at /run/payments/app.sock:

srwxr-xr-x 1 payments payments 0 Oct 11 05:00 /run/payments/app.sock

The service is active and listening.

Yet Nginx returns a 502 Bad Gateway on every user request. The Nginx error log reveals the problem:

[error] 2102#2102: *402 connect() to unix:/run/payments/app.sock failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream

The Nginx worker process runs as user www-data or nginx.

Even if the socket file itself has write permissions, Nginx must be able to search (execute) every parent directory in the path leading up to that socket file.

If /run/payments/ has directory permissions 0700 (rwx------) owned by payments:payments, any process running as www-data will be blocked from traversing the directory.

You can inspect permissions along an entire directory path with namei:

namei -om /run/payments/app.sock

Sample output:

f: /run/payments/app.sock
 drwxr-xr-x root     root     /
 drwxr-xr-x root     root     run
 drwx------ payments payments payments
 s-rwxr-xr-x payments payments app.sock

The third line reveals the barrier: drwx------ on payments. The www-data user cannot traverse into the directory to reach the socket.

To fix this cleanly in systemd, configure runtime directory permissions inside the service unit:

[Service]
RuntimeDirectory=payments
RuntimeDirectoryMode=0755

When systemd starts the service, it automatically creates /run/payments with mode 0755, ensuring reverse proxies can access the socket.

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Failure 8: Garbage Collection Freezes and Stop-the-World Pauses

Managed memory runtimes (Java Virtual Machine, Node.js V8 engine, Go, .NET) periodically reclaim unused memory via garbage collection.

Under normal operation, modern concurrent collectors perform sweeps in background threads with minimal interruption.

However, when an application experiences heavy memory pressure and approaches its maximum heap allocation (-Xmx in Java or --max-old-space-size in Node), the runtime triggers a full garbage collection cycle.

During a full collection, the runtime halts all application threads. This is known as a Stop-the-World pause.

While the collector scans gigabytes of memory references, the process continues running from the perspective of the operating system. Its PID is active in /proc.

Yet every network thread is frozen. No new connections are accepted. Existing connections receive no data. Health check probes sent by load balancers exceed their timeouts.

To check whether a process is running on the CPU or frozen in threads, inspect per-thread activity:

top -H -p 18492

The -H flag instructs top to display individual threads instead of aggregating the entire process.

If you see a single GC thread pinning 100% of a CPU core while all application worker threads display 0.0% CPU and zero state changes, the runtime is caught in an intensive memory cleanup sweep.

For Java applications, check the garbage collection statistics directly:

jstat -gcutil 18492 1000 5

If the FGC (Full GC count) is incrementing rapidly and GCT (total GC time) accounts for the majority of the elapsed seconds, the service is thrashing in memory management rather than servicing user traffic.

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The Story Behind systemd's NOTIFY_SOCKET

Here is a piece of Linux systems engineering history that explains why this problem exists in the first place.

When Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers designed systemd to replace the legacy SysVinit system in 2010, one of their primary design goals was eliminating the race condition known as startup deception.

Under SysVinit, a startup script executed an init command, waited for the command to return exit code 0, and immediately reported [ OK ] to the boot console.

In reality, traditional Unix daemons called fork(), spawned a child into the background, and returned exit code 0 to the parent shell before the child had even opened a config file, let alone bound its network port. Dependent services that started immediately afterward would attempt to connect to the port, get Connection refused, and crash.

To solve this, systemd introduced the Type=notify unit type and the sd_notify() API.

Instead of guessing when a process is ready based on PID creation, systemd creates a private UNIX domain datagram socket and passes its path to the process in the environment variable NOTIFY_SOCKET.

The service starts, performs all internal initialization, loads its caches, opens its database pools, and binds its network listening sockets.

Only when the socket is truly ready to handle traffic does the application send a single datagram to systemd:

READY=1

Until systemd receives that explicit string over NOTIFY_SOCKET, the unit remains in the activating state. If the initialization deadlocks or fails, systemd triggers its TimeoutStartSec timer, aborts the startup, and alerts the operator.

If you maintain services written in Go, Python, C, or Rust, switching your critical units from Type=simple to Type=notify eliminates the startup ghost outage entirely.

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The 60-Second Triage Checklist

When a service is marked active in systemd but users cannot connect, avoid speculative restarts. Follow this systematic, non-destructive sequence:

First, check the listen queue for backlog overflow:

ss -lnt '( sport = :PORT )'

If Recv-Q is greater than or equal to Send-Q, the accept queue is saturated. The application is frozen or deadlocked.

Second, verify the binding IP address:

Ensure the local address is 0.0.0.0:PORT or the correct private interface address, rather than strictly 127.0.0.1.

Third, check process state for kernel I/O locks:

ps -eo pid,stat,wchan:20,comm | grep <PID>

If the state is D, read /proc/<PID>/stack to see which filesystem, storage mount, or driver is blocking execution.

Fourth, check file descriptor consumption:

ls -1 /proc/<PID>/fd | wc -l
cat /proc/<PID>/limits | grep "Max open files"

If current descriptors match the maximum limit, the process is dropping new connections due to EMFILE.

Fifth, trace active system calls:

strace -p <PID> -c -w 3

Observe whether the process is actively executing system calls or blocked permanently inside futex, recvfrom, or epoll_wait.

Sixth, check socket file path traversal if using Unix domain sockets:

namei -om /path/to/socket.sock

Confirm that every parent directory grants execute (+x) permissions to the web server user.

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Wrapping Up

A green status indicator from systemctl confirms that a process exists in the Linux kernel process table. Nothing more.

It does not verify that the socket accept queue is draining. It does not check whether worker threads are deadlocked on database locks. It does not ensure file descriptors are available.

The next time an application stops responding while its service status looks pristine, resist the urge to reboot or cycle the process blindly. Check the listen backlog with ss, inspect descriptor allocations in /proc, and trace what the threads are waiting on.

You will find the real breakdown in under two minutes, preserve the diagnostic evidence, and fix the actual system limitation before it strikes again.

What is the strangest root cause you have uncovered where a service was active in systemd but completely unreachable?

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