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thoaug

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systemctl --failed:grub-btrfsd.service loaded but activ and sub failed

Hello,

I have the command systemctl --failed in the terminal and then get the following output:

 
 UNIT                           LOAD   ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION              
● grub-btrfsd.service loaded  failed      failed  Regenerate grub-btrfs.cfg

Legend: LOAD   → Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
        ACTIVE → The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
        SUB    → The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

1 loaded units listed.

What can I do?

Thank you for your help

thoaug

Last edited by thoaug (2025-03-07 17:23:27)

WorMzy

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Re: systemctl --failed:grub-btrfsd.service loaded but activ and sub failed

Firstly, please change your topic title to actually describe your issue. Secondly, please edit your post to include code tags around the terminal output.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … ow_to_post
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … s_and_code

Thirdly, check the service status as root: 'systemctl status grub-btrfsd.service'

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thoaug

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Re: systemctl --failed:grub-btrfsd.service loaded but activ and sub failed

Please excuse me. This is my first topic and my English isn't the best. I hope I've set up the code correctly. I haven't figured out how to change the topic yet.

The output of systemctl status grub-btrfsd.service as root shows the following

× grub-btrfsd.service - Regenerate grub-btrfs.cfg
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/grub-btrfsd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2025-03-07 11:08:07 CET; 5h 17min ago
   Duration: 23ms
 Invocation: f41ed2395d0342f6ab525fe01666a2a5
   Main PID: 496 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Mem peak: 1.7M
        CPU: 10ms

Mär 07 11:08:07 archlinux grub-btrfsd[502]: [!] inotifywait was not found, exiting. Is inotify-tools installed?
Mär 07 11:08:07 archlinux systemd[1]: grub-btrfsd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mär 07 11:08:07 archlinux systemd[1]: grub-btrfsd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I have now installed the inotify tools due to the message.

What to do next?

Last edited by thoaug (2025-03-07 15:46:26)

WorMzy

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Re: systemctl --failed:grub-btrfsd.service loaded but activ and sub failed

That should be all, but restart the service and see if there are any other errors.

As an aside, where is that /etc/systemd/system/grub-btrfsd.service file coming from? The grub-btrfs package doesn't create that.

pacman -Qo /etc/systemd/system/grub-btrfsd.service

EDIT: You can change the topic title by editing the first post.

Last edited by WorMzy (2025-03-07 17:12:45)

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thoaug

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Re: systemctl --failed:grub-btrfsd.service loaded but activ and sub failed

I started with sudo systemctl start grub-btrfsd and then sudo systemctl enable grub-btrfsd then I ran systemctl --failed again and the output is now:

UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION

0 loaded units listed.

think that looks good now :-)

thoaug

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Re: systemctl --failed:grub-btrfsd.service loaded but activ and sub failed

As an aside, where is that /etc/systemd/system/grub-btrfsd.service file coming from? The grub-btrfs package doesn't create that.

pacman -Qo /etc/systemd/system/grub-btrfsd.service

I have installed grub-btrfs, timeshift, timeshift-autosnap then I used sudo nano /etc/timeshift-autosnap.conf to set the max snapshots.
then systemctl enable cups.service and systemctl start cups.service as root and finally looked at the entries in Grub with sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg. That was it. I don't know if a command set that too