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Re: Unreliable systemd user service



On 6/21/2019 8:50 AM, Aidan Gauland wrote:
> On 21/06/19 6:25 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> Aidan Gauland writes:
>>> I have a user service for running xautolock that does not start on login
>>> reliably, and I have no idea why, because there is no error message,
>>> just an exit code of 1.  (Unit file and output of systemctl status
>>> attached.)  Any suggestions on what to do next to troubleshoot this?
>> I would guess `xautolock` might be started before X is
>> running/accessible by your user.
>>
>> Does the journal contain any useful log messages?  Note that there is a
>> race condition that some messages might not be logged as part of the
>> user service[1], so you might have to check all log messages and cannot
>> rely on journalctl's `--user-unit` option.
>
> Nope, absolutely nothing in the logs.
>
> Someone else suggested running xautolock from my .xsessionrc script so
> that it is always run after X is running, and that seems to work.  I
> wanted to run this via systemd because that's easier to restart after
> making tweaks than something run as part of a startup script, but I have
> not been able to find any mechanism to delay starting a /user/ service
> until the graphical login is ready.
>

Is it always working if you run the command manually?

--
John Doe


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