Re: systemd gpsd does not start on boot

[Philippe Clérié <philippe@gcal.net>]

On 10/23/2015 05:33 PM, Philippe Clérié wrote:
> I'm running raspbian jessy on a rpi2 with an Adafruit GPS board. Gpsd
> refuses to load on boot, but works just fine on manual start.
>
> I am not yet familiar with systemd. Even if I've had to dig a bit to try
> to understand how it works I'm still stumped at the moment, so I don't
> know if there's a bug or I am doing something wrong.
>
> There are 3 systemd units related to gpsd in /lib/systemd/system.
>
> gpsd.service
> gpsd.socket
> gpsdctl@.service
>
> My (weak) understanding is that systemd will start .socket which in turn
> will launch .service. That does not seem to be happening.
>
> Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks

For what it's worth:

Edit /lib/systemd/system/gpsd.service:

[Install]
+ WantedBy=multi-user.target
Also=gpsd.socket

Then:

sudo systemctl enable gpsd.service
sudo reboot

And gpsd gets loaded.

I don't know if it is the correct fix but that seems to work.

--
Philippe

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