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Werk #16241: Crash during parsing of systemd unit when description is missing

Component Checks & agents
Title Crash during parsing of systemd unit when description is missing
Date Feb 29, 2024
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.4.0b1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate, Checkmk Cloud, Checkmk Ultimate MT

You're affected if you're monitoring your systemd units with an old agent and your unit is missing a descpription.

Parsing may have failed with:

>       loaded_status, active_status, current_state, descr = remains.split(" ", 3)
E       ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 4, got 3)

This is fixed now.

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