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Bars

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Registered: 2025-05-18

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Unused systemd units

Hi everyone, I recently discovered that my systemd user manager has some inactive units.
The command I used is systemctl list-units --user --type=service --all | grep not-found
The output:

pipewire-media-session.service                 not-found inactive dead    pipewire-media-session.service
pulseaudio.service                             not-found inactive dead    pulseaudio.service

Are these modules important and can i somehow remove them if they are not used anyway?

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: Unused systemd units

That just means that some other unit references those.

$ grep -ER "(pulseaudio|pipewire-media-session).service" /usr/lib/systemd /etc/systemd ~/.config/systemd

Should reveal where, but note that there is likely nothing to "fix" here, it's just informative -- something mentions these services, but they're not present on your system.

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seth

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Re: Unused systemd units

And do not install either, pulseaudio and PMS are abandonware.

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