[systemd-devel] systemd --user fails to start a user service at the first time

[Han]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 10:25 PM Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 29.10.2021 04:54, Han wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a newbie to systemd. I encountered a strange problem when using
> > systemd user
> > service in Debian 10 (hardware: Raspberry Pi 4), systemd version 241.
> >
> > I posted this question on stackoverflow but didn't get answers yet. Hence
> > trying to ask here. My apologies if this is too basic.
> >
> >    1. I created a new service unit file at here:
> >    /home/pi/.config/systemd/user/foo.service
> >
> > its content looks like this:
> >
> > [Service]
> > ExecStart=/home/pi/test/foo
> > WorkingDirectory=/home/pi/test
> >
> >
> >    1. I tried to start this service, but it failed:
> >
> > $ systemctl --user start foo
> > Failed to start foo.service: Unit foo.se
>
> Does it work after
>
> systemctl --user daemon-reload
>
> ?
>

Yes, it worked after `daemon-reload`.  Thank you so much!

Han



>
> rvice not found.
> >
> > However, systemd can list this unit file when doing this:
> >
> > $systemctl --user list-unit-files --type service | grep foo
> > foo.service                      static
> >
> > Moreover, when I added [Install] section in the unit file:
> >
> > [Install]
> > WantedBy=multi-user.target
> >
>
> User instance does not have this target.
>
> > and run $systemctl --user enable foo , it worked.
> >
> > Even more, after that I removed the unit file, and recreated the unit
> file
> > without the [Install] section, now I start the service and the original
> > problem is no longer seen.
> >
> > So it seems like only when I try to create a new user service for the
> first
> > time on the system, without using [Install], it will fail to start.
> >
> > Any ideas why this is happening? (btw, I don't want to have [Install] for
> > this service.)
> >
> > Or is this a known issue fixed in a later release?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Han
> >
>
>
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