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dkremer

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Registered: 2011-08-10

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[Systemd][ systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service ] Error message at boot

Hello.

I recently happened to remove the "quiet" keyword from the kernel command line.

So at boot, everything goes fine, except I have something that fails. It says :

[ERROR] Failed to start Recreate volatile files and directories

It may be somehow systemd related, though I don't really.

I looked on google, and on the forum, and I didn't find anything.

Could you have an idea of what is the source of this message ?

Thank you.

Last edited by dkremer (2013-09-19 16:27:49)

WorMzy

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Re: [Systemd][ systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service ] Error message at boot

That's the description of systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service. Run "systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service" as root and see what it says.

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dkremer

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Re: [Systemd][ systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service ] Error message at boot

Here is what it gives :
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 jeu. 2013-09-19 18:00:44 CEST; 24min ago
     Docs: man:tmpfiles.d(5)
           man:systemd-tmpfiles(8)
  Process: 421 ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove --exclude-prefix=/dev (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 421 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

sept. 19 18:00:42 localhost systemd[1]: Starting Recreate Volatile Files and Directories...
sept. 19 18:00:44 localhost systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
sept. 19 18:00:44 localhost systemd[1]: Failed to start Recreate Volatile Files and Directories.
sept. 19 18:00:44 localhost systemd[1]: Unit systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service entered failed state.

WorMzy

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Re: [Systemd][ systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service ] Error message at boot

That's not as useful as I thought it'd be.

Looks like you'll have to check through the files in your tmpfiles.d directories (I'd start with /etc/tmpfiles.d) and see if any are malformed.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tm … rary_files

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