What are the systemctl options to "List all failed units"

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systemctl

Returns a list of the units, whether they are loaded, active, their sub and description.

systemctl is-failed

Returns a list of status only.

What is the syntax to return the details of the failed units?

score 189 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 10 '19 at 22:53

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You can use systemctl list-units --state=failed to list all failed units.

The parameters for systemctl are documented in the man page systemctl(1).

edited Oct 10 '19 at 22:53

Patrick Mevzek

answered Jan 29 '17 at 22:44

cg909

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`--failed` is an alias for `--state=failed` – sshow Aug 02 '17 at 14:57
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Yes thats right, but until 2017-02-02 `--failed` wasn't documented and marked as deprecated in the codebase ([#5198](https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/5198)) – cg909 Aug 02 '17 at 19:08
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I see. And from the PR discussion I learned that we can drop `list-units` and go with `systemctl --failed` by itself :) – sshow Aug 02 '17 at 20:22
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I find it very irritating that `systemctl status` tells me the one+ things are failed, but wont tell me what. I need to run another command, not under the `status` subcommand to find out. Shame. – Nathan Lilienthal Jun 22 '18 at 03:02
@NathanLilienthal request a change from the systemd folks. They are quite opinionated on "the one right way of doing things", though. – vonbrand Feb 25 '20 at 15:12

score 29 · Answer 2 · answered May 09 '20 at 22:05

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This is more simple:

systemctl --failed

answered May 09 '20 at 22:05

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