Re: binfmt-support cannot start at boot time because /var is not mounted

[Dmitry Katsubo <dma_k@mail.ru>]

On 2020-05-11 20:11, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On 11/05/2020 08:40, Reco wrote:
>> 	Hi.
>>
>> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 09:33:59AM +0200, Dmitry Katsubo wrote:
>>
>>> root@debian:~ # systemctl status binfmt-support
>>> * binfmt-support.service - Enable support for additional executable binary formats
>>>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/binfmt-support.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
>>>    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2020-05-10 21:54:27 CEST; 10h ago
>>>      Docs: man:update-binfmts(8)
>>>   Process: 353 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/update-binfmts --enable (code=exited, status=2)
>>>  Main PID: 353 (code=exited, status=2)
>>>
>>> May 10 21:54:27 debian update-binfmts[353]: update-binfmts: unable to open /var/lib/binfmts: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> Any help is appreciated.
>> This should help your problem:
>>
>> mkdir /etc/systemd/system/binfmt-support.service.d
>>
>> cat > /etc/systemd/system/binfmt-support.service.d/override.conf << EOF
>> [Unit]
>> RequiresMountsFor=/var
>> EOF
> 
> As another alternative, one can run "systemctl edit
> binfmt-support.service", which will create the intervening folders and
> files for you, and reload the daemon if the editor exits with success.

Thanks for suggestion! I have tried the advise and it actually worked
(I will keep an eye on that because one reboot may not be representative).
I wonder nevertheless what is the problem with this specific unit? It has
dependency on local-fs.target which in turn should mount /var. So what
exactly went wrong?

-- 
With best regards,
Dmitry