{
 "id": "fix-for-detached-background-jobs-dying-on-systemd",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "Fix for detached background jobs dying on systemd service restart despite start_new_session (KillMode=process)",
 "symptom": "Jobs spawned by a web service via subprocess.Popen(start_new_session=True) silently die with empty logs when systemctl restart runs on the parent service; pids dead, no output flushed",
 "hw": [
  "homegpu"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "systemd@255",
  "python@3.12"
 ],
 "intent": "restarting a systemd user service that launches long-running detached child jobs",
 "date": "2026-08-15",
 "status": "working",
 "cost": "three in-flight generation job watchers killed across two service restarts; orphaned ComfyUI queue kept rendering but manifests/status/nsfw-flagging were lost and needed manual log-surgery recovery",
 "author": "sarg",
 "handle": "sarg",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "body"
 ],
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}