[systemd-devel] Is this list still active? Where can I get basic help with systemd

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Tue Dec 5 14:36:51 UTC 2017


On Sa, 02.12.17 20:40, Doug Snyder (webcoach101 at gmail.com) wrote:

> I'm trying to write a basic systemd service. The ExecStart command I'm
> using works. The systemd service doesn't. It throws a cryptic error and I
> can't find any documentation on the web that makes any sense of it. I
> posted on this list and got no responses. Is this list active? If not is
> there somewhere I can get basic help for setting up a service. Systemd is
> the default tool daemonizing on most Linux distros right? There must be
> some way to get help to get a basic example working.

Please always indicate which systemd version you are using, which
distribution and which kernel.

> Nov 20 13:58:33 stower systemd[1]: celery_bf.service failed to run 'start'
> task: Operation not supported

Hmm, this indicates that some kernel functionality required is not
available in the kernel. I am not sure which one that is, and logging
is a bit too brief for that.

If you run "systemd-analyze set-log-level debug", and run this again,
what do you see then?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat


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