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dominicm

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Registered: 2015-01-03

Posts: 92

Synergy service fails to start (start-limit-hit)

I have installed Synergy with pacman and trying to start it on boot but it is failing. I followed directions in the Synergy wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/synergy

Wiki seems to be providing false information as running the below command results in not found error:

sudo systemctl start synergys@my-user

The following does bot  produce any errors but fails to start the service:

systemctl --user start synergys

Systemctl status:

Jul 11 13:32:35 workstation systemd[1394]: synergys.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 11 13:32:35 workstation systemd[1394]: synergys.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 11 13:32:35 workstation systemd[1394]: synergys.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 11 13:32:35 workstation systemd[1394]: Stopped Synergy Server Daemon.
Jul 11 13:32:35 workstation systemd[1394]: synergys.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Jul 11 13:32:35 workstation systemd[1394]: Failed to start Synergy Server Daemon.
Jul 11 13:32:35 workstation systemd[1394]: synergys.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jul 11 13:32:35 workstation systemd[1394]: synergys.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.

First of all is the wiki wrong or is there another issue that prevents the first command from working? This isn't the first time I couldn't get the @user method to work. Second what is the proper way to start synergy on boot and if the second method is correct then why is it failing?

Starting synergy from GUI or command line works fine but not with systemctl.

Last edited by dominicm (2016-07-11 12:43:30)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,286

Re: Synergy service fails to start (start-limit-hit)

What does journalctl (--user) say about synergys.service?

dominicm

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Registered: 2015-01-03

Posts: 92

Re: Synergy service fails to start (start-limit-hit)

Sorry, I didn't see your reply earlier. There is are no entries in the journal for synergy. It looks like it's just broken and I guess no one cares as it works fine from the desktop. The user systemd scripts actually do not exist so the wiki must be outdated.