Re: masked service file
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 07:31:22PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> On 2021-08-31 18:49, john doe wrote:
> > You can simply 'unmask' it and see how it goes.
>
> Is there a way to find out why it is masked ?
Starting from a point of zero context? Probably not.
You MIGHT be able to scroll back through your terminal history and
see what happened when you installed whatever package contains this
mystery service. Maybe there will be informative output.
If there's no terminal still containing the session where you installed
the package, you can check /var/log/apt/term.log* and maybe one of those
will have a copy of the session and its output. Again, maybe there will
be informative output in the session's output. Maybe there won't.
Maybe there will be documentation under /usr/share/doc/PKGNAME that
tells you why the service is masked, and that you need to perform steps
X, Y, Z to be able to use the service. Maybe there won't. Hard to tell
without knowing the name of the package and the name of the service.
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