From ab9f4b68f233a2a0cdb33f1f3e914ea108630783 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Grande <ben@invisiblethingslab.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 03:53:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Report failure reason on WaitForRunningSystem

For: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-admin/pull/757
For: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1512
---
 qubes-rpc/qubes.WaitForRunningSystem | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qubes-rpc/qubes.WaitForRunningSystem b/qubes-rpc/qubes.WaitForRunningSystem
index 6c419a1de..06ed3493a 100755
--- a/qubes-rpc/qubes.WaitForRunningSystem
+++ b/qubes-rpc/qubes.WaitForRunningSystem
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 set -eu
-systemctl --wait --quiet is-system-running
-exit 0
+rc=0
+systemctl --wait is-system-running >&2 || rc=$?
+if test "$rc" -gt 0; then
+  LC_ALL=C TERM=dumb systemctl --failed --legend=no >&2
+fi
+exit "$rc"