[systemd-devel] Cannot create 'home' directory systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 1:58 PM Bao Nguyen <baondt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service throws a strange error when booting my
> system
>
> .
> Dec 30 11:32:53 mynode systemd-tmpfiles[751]: Failed to open directory
> 'home': No such file or directory
> Dec 30 11:32:53 mynode systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Job
> systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service/start finished, result=failed
> Dec 30 11:32:53 mynode systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile
> Files and Directories.
>
> The error is solved when I start systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
> manually again after booting completely. My system is boot up with
> initrd RAM disk and I am quire sure there is a /home in my initrd. The
> error only happens if I put a partition to /etc/fstab to mount it
> during the boot time. If I do not put anything in /etc/fstab then
> their is no error shown during starting up process. The content of
> /etc/fstab does not relate any to 'home' folder, I just want to mount
> a partition to a /mnt folder.
>
> Could you please help to advise the reason of this? is there anything
> related between /etc/fstab and systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
> dependency?
>

Check /etc/tmpfiles.d and (/usr)/lib/tmpfiles.d for anything that mentions
'home'.

Run `SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug systemd-tmpfiles --create` as root and search
for mentions of 'home'.

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas
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