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kevdog

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Registered: 2013-01-26

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systemd-hostnamed.service fails to start

I'm finding the systemd-hostnamed.service isnt working

$ sudo systemctl --state=failed
[sudo] password for kevdog: 
  UNIT                      LOAD   ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION
● systemd-hostnamed.service loaded failed failed Hostname Service

LOAD   = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
SUB    = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

1 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.
To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.

$ sudo systemctl status  systemd-hostnamed.service
● systemd-hostnamed.service - Hostname Service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-hostnamed.service; static)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Tue 2014-12-16 23:11:36 CST; 10min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-hostnamed.service(8)
           man:hostname(5)
           man:machine-info(5)
           http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed
 Main PID: 4584

Dec 16 23:08:35 orphan systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service start operation timed out. Terminating.
Dec 16 23:10:06 orphan systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service stop-final-sigterm timed out. Killing.
Dec 16 23:11:36 orphan systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service still around after final SIGKILL. Entering failed mode.
Dec 16 23:11:36 orphan systemd[1]: Failed to start Hostname Service.
Dec 16 23:11:36 orphan systemd[1]: Unit systemd-hostnamed.service entered failed state.
Dec 16 23:11:36 orphan systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service failed.

I found this addressed in this topic:
https://github.com/ev3dev/ev3dev/issues/189

Within this page they state:

Confirmed that removing PrivateNetwork=yes from the service file works as a workaround. Maybe need to enable CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y and CONFIG_NET_NS=y kernel modules

I removed the PrivateNetwork=yes from the service file, however this didn't seem to work.  I did not enable the kernel modules.  I am currently running the following kernel: 3.17.6-1-ARCH

Thanks