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systemd is a collection of daemons, libraries and tools for system management. Ubuntu's Upstart system was replaced with systemd starting with Ubuntu 15.04.

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"upowerd[4116]: unhandled action 'bind'" messages filling up syslog

On a laptop with Ubuntu 18.04, /var/log/syslog gets new block of the four following messages about 5 times per second: Aug 29 19:17:17 my_hostname systemd-udevd[336]: Process 'hid2hci --method=dell --...
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Getting dm-event.socket error during booting of the machine

Getting following systemd error while booting up. The operation system is ubuntu 20.04LTS. This error could be preexisting (I upgraded the os 3 days back): systemd[1]: dm-event.socket: Socket ...
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How to automatically start a service after manually decrypting /home partition

Problem: I have a service,seafile.service, that automatically starts a Seafile server after boot. However, this service is failing to start on my Ubuntu server that has an encrypted /home partition. ...
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Execute script on every start, wakeup and activation!

I want to execute a script on every start up, wake up and activation. In the current setup the script is executed in: /etc/rc.local /lib/systemd/system-sleep It works so far, but if I reactivate my ...
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Problem with timedatectl and network time synchronisation in 16.04

I have a dual-boot machine with Windows and Xubuntu 16.04. Because of Windows, the hardware clock is set to local time, so I had to use timedatectl to make Xubuntu aware of that after the upgrade to ...
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ConditionPathIsDirectory=/sys/class/bluetooth was not met

The output of systemctl status bluetooth is: ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (...
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/sbin/init splash high CPU usage

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 and since a week the fan of my laptop spins constantly. There are also major performance dropouts where the system seems to halt for a few seconds. Now I had the time to take ...
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"Failed to start Network Name Resolution/Time Synchronization"

My Ubuntu 20 computer shut down when I wasn't looking, and now when I try tu turn it on the following messages appear over and over [FAILED] Failed to start Network Name Resolution. See 'systemctl ...
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How to disable snaps from starting at boot?

Snaps are awesome, but they cause slow boot time, especially if you have quite a few of them. systemd-analyze blame confirms this. I tried to disable or even mask their main systemd services (snapd....
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Is unmask-ing root ("-.mount") a unreasonable on Ubuntu 19.04

I have had this on problem on different machines using Ubuntu 19.04 after recent updates, and I became intensly curious after my DVD and USB drives started having trouble mounting. During the apt ...
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Timed out Availability of block devices

On a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 (64 bit) Server install, the blk-availability.service always killed by timeout at shutdown. I think the dependency of this service is bad, but I don't know what would be the ...
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Why is my drive not listed under /dev/disk/by-uuid and by-label?

After upgrading from Ubuntu 16.04.2 to 16.04.3 (kernel 4.4.0-64 to 4.4.0-112) one of my drives won't mount after boot. I have tried rebooting with the old kernel, but the problem persists - so ...
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openvpn stuck at systemd-tty-ask-password-agent

trying to start openvpn and I keep getting this: Broadcast message from root@Media (Thu 2017-08-03 07:28:29 EDT): Password entry required for 'Enter Auth Password:' (PID 31285). Please enter ...
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After 16.04 upgrade install systemd-sysv failed, how can I check that I fixed it?

I updated to 16.04LTS from 15.10. It has been reported as a bug that the message 'not installed systemd-sysv' appears, which it also did on my machine and the installation aborted with the suggestion ...
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Ubuntu server 14.04 and systemd-udevd process with high CPU usage

After upgrading from Ubuntu Server 12.04.2 to Ubuntu 14.04.2 Server version, I observed a huge usage of CPU (~ 90%) by systemd-udevd processes (3). Running udevadm monitor display continuously ...
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/etc/systemd/logind.conf ignored

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, when I'm setting /etc/systemd/logind.conf to have: HandleLidSwitch=suspend HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=suspend It appears to have no effect. Same happens if I set these to "...
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How to dermine why a systemd service is not stopping on shutdown? (stop job is running)

Recently every time I shut down or reboot my laptop, it is slow to shut down, and shows the following message: A stop job is running for Session c1 of User gdm I tried several similar questions that ...
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Can unattended upgrade shutdown my Ubuntu Server?

My server unexpectedly powered down today. From syslog, it seems like it might have been the unattended upgrade service: Nov 22 15:23:25 lynx systemd[1]: unattended-upgrades.service: Succeeded. Nov 22 ...
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How to enable systemd-cryptenroll TPM2 support in Impish Indri

Background and Setup: I have installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 21.10 on my laptop. Before install I cleared the TPM2.0 module from BIOS and during install I enabled SecureBoot. I selected full disk ...
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How to restart a systemd socket?

Problem in a nutshell: systemd creates a socket on boot, but it is not possible to restart or recreate it without a reboot. /etc/systemd/system/gunicorn.socket [Unit] Description=gunicorn socket [...
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18.04, grub takes about 6 minutes to boot, problem: `systemd-udevd 'SomeDevice' is taking a long time`

after a whole system update (that I try to avoid usually), I thought I was unable to boot, but this time I decided to wait more. so after exactly 6m05s (everytime is that precise delay) it finally ...
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using append flag to continuously append log causes service to fail

In my systemd service I used append to keep on appending log to exisint log file: [Service] Type=idle Restart=always RestartSec=6 EnvironmentFile=/home/rock64/.config/systemd/user/photon_uploader.env ...
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Managing systemd timers triggering conflicting oneshot services

I'm working on creating services that can do a logical MySQL backup as well as a physical MySQL backup. The logical backups would be done every 4 hours while the physical backups would be done once a ...
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Pulseaudio fail to start at boot

When I boot PA does not start. Syslog show this: $ grep 'pulseaudio' /var/log/syslog Mar 26 08:08:30 MX systemd[1171]: /usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service:16: Failed to add dependency on ...
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How to move logs out of journalctl, to a file with daily rotation & archiving?

I have a particular custom service registered in systemd, which spews a lot of logs to stdout/stderr. I want to remove the logs from journalctl output (because they generate a lot of noise there, and ...
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Debugging sporadic lightdm and network-manager hang

About 1 in 10 times I boot, I get a black screen with a blinking cursor. I then have to do Ctrl+Alt+F1, Log in and do "service lightdm restart" and my graphical desktop comes back. Probably 1 in 5 ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 and systemctl service disappearing

I created and enabled a service: $ sudo systemctl enable /path/to/imaservice.service Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/imaservice.service → /path/to/imaservice.service. ...
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no /run/dbus/system_bus_socket

I wanted to upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 but the upgrade failed, I think the reason was that policykit-1 was left unconfigured. Rebooting did not help and now I am in the emergency console. I found ...
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systemctl --user returns "Unit was not found" on Ubuntu 18.04

I just fresh installed Ubuntu 18.04. I am having an issue with systemd, which worked fine with 17.10. My service files are located in ~/.config/systemd/user. I tried a daemon-reload. didn't work. I ...
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Are there file-naming conventions for .cron and .systemd extensions?

I'm starting to rename all my existing bash scripts in /home/Me/bin and /usr/local/bin from no extension to a .sh extension. The reason is the exact same file name with drastically different contents ...
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Completely remove systemd service

I have an old piece of software, which however works perfectly until now. It is a service, set up with sudo update-rc.d zcam_101 defaults sudo service zcam_101 start Last day I had to change a ...
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Renaming virtio network devices in Ubuntu 16.04 is not working

I am trying to rename some virtio ethernet devices on an Ubuntu 16.04 VM. I've done this successfully many times on non-Ubuntu systems with physical interfaces and older Ubuntu systems. Yet, despite ...
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systemctl enable libvirtd failed: too many levels of symbolic links on 16.04

I just installed virt-manager with APT (via $ sudo apt-get install -y virt-manager) and ran: $ sudo gpasswd -a fusion809 libvirtd (where fusion809 is the name of the user account I am presently ...
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Systemd execute a script everytime a USB-Stick is inserted

I want to launch a script everytime a USB stick is inserted. After experimenting with udev, I tried to accomplish my task with systemd (udev is supposed to run only short tasks). Systemd works fine ...
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systemctl cannot disable services, displays upstart errors

On my Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) server, I cannot disable services from autostarting at boot. I get these error messages: $ sudo systemctl disable puppet.service ... initctl: Unable to connect to Upstart: ...
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Systemd taking a very long time to boot

This morning I turned on my PC and suddenly it took extremely long time to boot (usually less than 10s), I did systemd-analyze critical-chain and this was the result: graphical.target @1min 39.673s └─...
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Systemd service to run script at boot under a specified user account

I'm very new to systemd and I'm trying to set up a little startup script for a Teamspeak server and I'm having some trouble getting it to actually start up. Some info: The Teamspeak server runs ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Server UFW does not activate automatically

Lately, I've noticed that UFW is inactive until I activate it manually. I've run ufw enable multiple times, checked that ufw.service is active, but it still does not start on boot. Output of systemctl ...
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How to set timeout for waiting missing HDD while system boots?

System: Ubuntu 20.04 with EFI boot. Clarification why I need this I configured two swap partitions: One primary swap on the second HDD. It is used for hibernation. (Hibernation function is better to ...
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Ubuntu 20 LTS. How to adjust [email protected] timeouts?

I am running the ARM64 build of Ubuntu 20.04 under QEMU. ~50% of the time the boot process reports this: [ TIME ] Timed out waiting for device /dev/ttyAMA0. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Serial Getty ...
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How about only one zpool in Ubuntu instead of bpool + rpool? Will zsys or anything like systemd mount generators be broken? Other concerns?

I am aware that grub does support only some of zpool features and usually this is the reason of having 2 pools. Also 2 pools are used to encrypt only one (rpool) of them. But that’s not a problem if I ...
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systemd --user fails to start while complaining about permission in ubuntu server 20.04 inside openvz 7

Info about the system. # systemctl --version systemd 245 (245.4-4ubuntu3.13) +PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +APPARMOR +SMACK +SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +...
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Why does journald use so much space to store so little data, and how can I reduce or compress the journal logs?

I use journald with memory only logging limited to 55MB. But somehow this equates to less than a days worth of logging. Config: $ grep -v '^#' /etc/systemd/journald.conf [Journal] Storage=volatile ...
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Slow boot. How to read systemd-analyze blame/critical chain/plot

I'm running Xubuntu 20.04 in a Virtualbox VM. The VM image is stored on a healthy SSD. It used to start fast after installing. I don't remember/didn't notice when the boot process slowed down so I ...
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Slow boot time on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS

I've just installed Ubuntu on a new build PC and I'm consistently experiencing long boot times of well over 2 minutes. I saw a lot of advice to use systemd-analyze, but wasn't sure how to interpret it ...
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Redis doesn't automatically start after reboot in systemd even if it's enabled

I want to enable automatic start of redis database with systemd after boot. I got weird issues with x86 Ubuntu on ec2: systemd claims that service is enabled. ubuntu@:~$ systemctl status redis ● redis....
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why is if statement working on terminal but not as script

I am trying to make a script that checks if a service is running (sickchill in this case) and if not start it with systemctl. My code is working as intended if I execute it from the terminal, but when ...
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Help with g810-led, actually g213-led and g203-led. Setting up a service

I'm synchronizing my keyboard leds to cycle color with my mouse this way: cd /home/&USER/Docuemnts/g203-led; sudo g213-led -fx cycle all 20000ms && sudo ./g203-led.py cycle 20000; here ...
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Start SSH in isolated rescue.target?

I'm planning a system upgrade from Eoan to Focal on a remote machine where I only have SSH access. I've previously dealt with broken packages causing the system to boot into rescue mode, so I want to ...
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SystemCtl Enable Seems to Depend on File Name

I have been trying to create a service file that would let me run ElasticSearch on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. I have the following two files: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114 Apr 14 13:43 /lib/systemd/system/...
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