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ratcheer

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[Solved] systemd error during startup

My system journal has these messages during system startup:

systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-ask-password-console.service:20: Executable "systemd-tty-ask-password-agent" not found in path "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin"
systemd[1]: systemd-ask-password-console.service: Unit configuration has fatal error, unit will not be started.
systemd[1]: systemd-ask-password-console.path: Refusing to start, unit systemd-ask-password-console.service to trigger not loaded.
systemd[1]: Failed to start Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch.

The problem seems to be that the file does not exist. However, the file does exist:

ls -l /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26504 Mar 10 16:32 /usr/bin/systemd-tty-ask-password-agent

Why isn't the file found and used? What should I do to fix this?

Last edited by ratcheer (2020-04-22 12:48:31)

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Re: [Solved] systemd error during startup

Can you exec the file? I mean systemd-tty-ask-poassword-agent tool produce any output?

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ratcheer

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Re: [Solved] systemd error during startup

No output, and no error. But, what I read about this agent before I posted suggests it is only to be executed during startup.

progandy

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Re: [Solved] systemd error during startup

Is it needed in the initramfs, but is missing there for some reason?

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ratcheer

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Re: [Solved] systemd error during startup

Thank you.

Probably. I have found no definitive list of what needs to be loaded by dracut. I already had to add a driver for radeon, a few weeks ago. How exactly do I tell it to add this?

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progandy

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Re: [Solved] systemd error during startup

I don't use dracut, so I have no idea. Since it looks like the boot was successful anyways, maybe nothing needs a password and you can remove systemd-ask-password-console.service and systemd-ask-password-console.path

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ratcheer

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Re: [Solved] systemd error during startup

I kind of thought of that, too. But, I was going on the idea that, if "they" put it there, it must be needed, and if it's needed, it should be fixed. This is just a home desktop system, so maybe it isn't needed.

Thanks.

ratcheer

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Re: [Solved] systemd error during startup

I'm not the only one getting this: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/15086

ratcheer

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Re: [Solved] systemd error during startup

From github, this morning:

"The fix is in dracut 050, but Arch is still on dracut 049-4. I will test at home if an upgrade solves the problem indeed, and then also poke the maintainer of the Arch package."

ratcheer

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Re: [Solved] systemd error during startup

The problem is resolved with the arrival of package local/dracut 050-1.