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heyom

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Registered: 2013-12-03

Posts: 43

[SOLVED] systemd-journald & tmpfiles-setup Failures

Hello,

I have a weird situation. After I've finished installing my system, I got errors with journald...

After logging as root I get the following errors:

systemd-journald[338]: Failed to get machine id: No such file or directory
systemd-journald[340]: Failed to get machine id: No such file or directory
systemd-journald[345]: Failed to get machine id: No such file or directory
systemd-journald[347]: Failed to get machine id: No such file or directory
systemd-journald[349]: Failed to get machine id: No such file or directory
systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service.
systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Trigger Flushing of Journal to Presistent Storage.
systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service

and after I typed

systemctl

to see what's more, I got errors at the following:

systemd-journal-flush.service     loaded failed failed
systemd-journald.service            loaded failed failed
systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service     loaded failed failed
systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service            loaded failed failed
systemd-journald-dev-log.socket          loaded failed failed
systemd-journald.socket                        loaded failed failed

and other problems related to the above like

Failed to start Cleanup of Temporary Directories.

Note that it is my first time I have problems with journald and tmpfiles-setup and I'm not sure what happened...

Any help would be very appreciated and thank you very much in advance.

Last edited by heyom (2014-08-30 09:24:24)

yjerem

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Registered: 2014-08-30

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] systemd-journald & tmpfiles-setup Failures

I just had the same problem while installing a new Arch system. I managed to fix it by running `systemd-machine-id-setup` as root (not sudo).

Also, before I did that, while installing a package I got an error message about dbus not finding a machine id, and that error message suggested running `dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id` (again as root, not sudo). So, you may need to do that, too.

heyom

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Registered: 2013-12-03

Posts: 43

Re: [SOLVED] systemd-journald & tmpfiles-setup Failures

Problem has been solved. Thank you yjerem.