[SOLVED]Systemd Tmpfile Setup Service Fails

Hspasta · 2012-06-22 08:25:29

I'm not sure what version this began but I'm using systemd 185-1 and systemd-arch-units 20120606-4. Service just fails to start. Is this fixable?

└╼ $ systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service 
systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service - Recreate Volatile Files and Directories
          Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service; static)
          Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:22:15 -0400; 36s ago
            Docs: man:tmpfiles.d(5)
         Process: 931 ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service

Last edited by Hspasta (2012-06-23 04:31:05)

WorMzy · 2012-06-22 08:38:10

At a guess, one or more of your /etc/tmpfile.d/*.conf files is malformed. Do you have anything in there?

Hspasta · 2012-06-22 19:27:21

It's empty.

swanson · 2012-06-22 19:32:27

Check fstab and comment out the tmp there.

WorMzy · 2012-06-22 20:55:17

Do you have any aur/custom-made packages that put *.conf files in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d or /usr/local/lib/tmpfiles.d?

Does the system journal have any more information about the failure?

Hspasta · 2012-06-22 21:32:53

swanson wrote:

Check fstab and comment out the tmp there.

Did and didn't help.

WorMzy wrote:

Do you have any aur/custom-made packages that put *.conf files in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d or /usr/local/lib/tmpfiles.d?
Does the system journal have any more information about the failure?

Hm...I have a lot of stuff in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/

└╼ $ ls /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/
total 44K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  30 Jun  4 16:12 console.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  29 May 27 00:29 consolekit.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  74 Jun  6 19:02 initscripts.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 719 Jun  4 16:12 legacy.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  61 Jun 16 01:28 lvm2.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24 Jun  1 00:04 mpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  27 Jun  9 03:29 nscd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  30 Jun  9 01:41 openssh.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 729 Jun  4 16:12 systemd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 449 Jun  4 16:12 tmp.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 622 Jun  4 16:12 x11.conf

I feel like something in my system is broken...

tomegun · 2012-06-23 00:14:15

If you run "systemctl status ..." as root you will get some more output. You can also have a look at "journalctl" and grep for "tmpfiles".

Hspasta · 2012-06-23 04:30:42

systemctl status as root showed one error with the mpd.conf which was the cause of all this. I find this bug really silly because I enabled the mpd.service for a very short amount of time and I guess the tmpfile for mpd never got deleted. It was complaining about the fact that I don't have a user named 'mpd'.

Thanks for all the help.

WorMzy · 2012-06-23 11:16:33

I guess you need to add yourself to the adm group to be able to see journal output when querying services with systemctl as your normal user.

Regarding your problem; I think you must either 1) not have an up to date system, 2) have manually removed the mpd user, while leaving the mpd package installed, or 3) have manually created mpd.conf in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ at some point, then forgotten to remove it.

The mpd package provides both the tmpfile conf and the mpd user, so it shouldn't be possible to have one and not the other without manual intervention.

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#1 2012-06-22 08:25:29

[SOLVED]Systemd Tmpfile Setup Service Fails

#2 2012-06-22 08:38:10

Re: [SOLVED]Systemd Tmpfile Setup Service Fails

#3 2012-06-22 19:27:21

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