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chsims1

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From: Holderness, UK

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 83

[Solved] Accidental deletion of systemd files in /etc/systemd/system

Yes, I know, I know.  I've said all that to myself already

Ok, so now to the solution.  System boots up to cli login prompt fine, but doesn't make an attempt to load KDE.  /etc/systemd/system is empty of files but does still have it's subdirectories intact. What files have I lost and what is the easiest way to replace them please?

Hopeful regards ...

Last edited by chsims1 (2015-05-08 11:04:38)

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: [Solved] Accidental deletion of systemd files in /etc/systemd/system

You have lost no files, that directory contains only symlinks. The question is, which symlinks... I think it'd simply be a matter of re-enabling services that you have now disabled. Eg. look at `systemctl list-units` and enable the ones you want

chsims1

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From: Holderness, UK

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 83

Re: [Solved] Accidental deletion of systemd files in /etc/systemd/system

Thank you very much Spider.007... that has got me pointed in the right direction.  For the sake of anyone else searching, "systemctl list-unit-files" lists all installed services and details which are disabled, static or running.

I have enabled the kdm service (systemctl enable kdm.service) which has got me back into KDE, and I guess I will find out over the next few days which other services I am missing (everything seems fine at the moment).

Thanks again.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: [Solved] Accidental deletion of systemd files in /etc/systemd/system

You have lost no files, that directory contains only symlinks.

Not necessarily.

If you have created any custom units or drop-in *.conf files in that directory, you will need to recreate them.

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: [Solved] Accidental deletion of systemd files in /etc/systemd/system

You have lost no files, that directory contains only symlinks.

Not necessarily.

If you have created any custom units or drop-in *.conf files in that directory, you will need to recreate them.

Ah, you're right, I forgot about those.

@ts; you also might want to enable these, they get enabled on install but you're probably missing them now:

systemctl enable getty@tty1.service remote-fs.target

Last edited by Spider.007 (2015-05-08 11:18:06)

chsims1

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From: Holderness, UK

Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 83

Re: [Solved] Accidental deletion of systemd files in /etc/systemd/system

Yep, I've replaced the custom files ... that was what caused the original problem.