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Aegidius

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[Solved] Systemd in user mode not working properly

Hello.

I wrote this Systemd service that I would like to run as normal user.

[Unit]
Description=Google Drive mount
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/google-drive-ocamlfuse -m '/home/egidio/Google Drive'
ExecStop=/usr/bin/fusermount -u '/home/egidio/Google Drive'

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

I start it and everything seems fine, but when I try to access the mounted point, I get this error.

[egidio@egidiolaptop user]$ ls -la ~/Google\ Drive 
ls: cannot access /home/egidio/Google Drive: Transport endpoint is not connected

If I run the ExecStart command manually everything works perfectly.

Can you please help me?

Last edited by Aegidius (2015-05-13 18:17:12)

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jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] Systemd in user mode not working properly

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to NC...

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ewaller

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Re: [Solved] Systemd in user mode not working properly

How (specifically) did you enable the service?
Is there any interesting information left in the journal after it tries to start?

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Aegidius

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Re: [Solved] Systemd in user mode not working properly

I enabled it with

systemctl --user enable googledrive.service

Well, in journalct I can see these lines, but it's starts correctly executing /usr/bin/google-drive-ocamlfuse -m '/home/egidio/Google Drive' directly.

May 11 22:39:19 egidiolaptop systemd[756]: Started Google Drive mount.
May 11 22:39:19 egidiolaptop systemd[756]: Starting Google Drive mount...
May 11 22:39:19 egidiolaptop fusermount[17879]: /usr/bin/fusermount: failed to 
May 11 22:39:19 egidiolaptop systemd[756]: googledrive.service: control process
May 11 22:39:19 egidiolaptop systemd[756]: Unit googledrive.service entered fai
May 11 22:39:19 egidiolaptop systemd[756]: googledrive.service failed.

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ewaller

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Re: [Solved] Systemd in user mode not working properly

Okay, there are clues in there, but journalctl truncated the output -- fusermount failed to do something    there is a journalctl switch that tells it not to truncate lines, but I am not in front of a linux machine right now, and I don't recall the exact incantation.

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snakeroot

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Re: [Solved] Systemd in user mode not working properly

I think the truncation is a function of the pager rather than journalctl, so maybe run it with -a and --no-pager?

Here are

• a useful article

• the current journalctl man page

See the entry for "--no-full, --full, -l" in man journalctl for more details.

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Aegidius

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Re: [Solved] Systemd in user mode not working properly

This is the output of journalctl --all

May 12 20:55:04 egidiolaptop /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[19552]: Activating service name='org.gnome.Terminal'
May 12 20:55:04 egidiolaptop /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[19552]: Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Terminal'
May 12 20:55:26 egidiolaptop gnome-session[19563]: 1431456926458        addons.update-checker   WARN    Update manifest for {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd} did not contain an updates property
May 12 20:56:03 egidiolaptop systemd[19544]: [/home/egidio/.config/systemd/user/googledrive.service:2] Unknown lvalue 'Type' in section 'Unit'
May 12 20:56:03 egidiolaptop systemd[19544]: Cannot add dependency job for unit network-online.target, ignoring: Unit network-online.target failed to load: No such file or directory.
May 12 20:56:03 egidiolaptop systemd[19544]: Created slice -.slice.
May 12 20:56:03 egidiolaptop systemd[19544]: Starting -.slice.
May 12 20:56:03 egidiolaptop systemd[19544]: Started Google Drive mount.
May 12 20:56:03 egidiolaptop systemd[19544]: Starting Google Drive mount...
May 12 20:56:03 egidiolaptop fusermount[20547]: /usr/bin/fusermount: failed to unmount /home/egidio/Google Drive: Device or resource busy
May 12 20:56:03 egidiolaptop systemd[19544]: googledrive.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
May 12 20:56:03 egidiolaptop systemd[19544]: Unit googledrive.service entered failed state.
May 12 20:56:03 egidiolaptop systemd[19544]: googledrive.service failed.

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Aegidius

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Re: [Solved] Systemd in user mode not working properly

Ian Lee helped my out here. I managed to do it by adding the Type=forking directive.

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Raynman

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Re: [Solved] Systemd in user mode not working properly

Does it actually fork? Or is it more like a normal mount command that exits after the filesystem has been mounted? In that case Type=oneshot with RemainAfterExit=yes would be more appropriate.

Aegidius

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Re: [Solved] Systemd in user mode not working properly

Thank you!

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