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Deadboots

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Registered: 2014-10-31

Posts: 3

Shadow.service fails to start

I've gotten a notification upon startup at least twice at this point - something along the lines of "shadow.service failed". systemctl --failed confirms that it's the only service failing.

I found https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=180203 - which addresses the same topic, but I'm unsure of how to go about applying the fixes mentioned here. Where can I find the new uuid value that I need for the files that are listed in the first reply? Do I need to edit each of those files? Are there any other files that would affect shadow.service's operation, or any other files that need to be updated with the appropriate uuid value?

The other thing I don't understand is why the service would fail. If the uuid value in the files it checks is invalid, shouldn't it return an error message stating that the checked files failed validation?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!