[systemd-devel] Upower service fails to start

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Tue Oct 16 10:43:09 UTC 2018



Am 16.10.18 um 12:20 schrieb Malcolm White:
> I am running openSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE on a x86-64 desktop. The
> system was updated (zypper dup) today, but I've been having an issue
> with the upower service for a couple of months and have not been able to
> discover a resolution amongst the openSUSE community.
> 
> The underlying cause appears to be a namespacing problem as it effects
> both upower and systemd-localed in similar manner. Please refer to
> snapshots from #systemctl and #journalctl -xe output below.
> 
> pepper:/var/log/zypp # service upower start
> Job for upower.service failed because the control process exited with
> error code.
> See "systemctl status upower.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
> 
> pepper:/usr/lib/systemd # systemctl status upower.service
> ● upower.service - Daemon for power management
>    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/upower.service; disabled;
> vendor preset: disabled)
>    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-10-16 10:10:36 BST;
> 1h 6min ago
>      Docs: man:upowerd(8)
>   Process: 18931 ExecStart=/usr/lib/upower/upowerd (code=exited,
> status=226/NAMESPACE)
>  Main PID: 18931 (code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE)
ask at your distibution
that service file is *not* part of systemd upstream

and if they whould do proper updates that misleading support url won't
excist in the error message at all


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