[systemd-devel] Systemd startup question

[Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS)]

Good Afternoon list,

I am having a problem with my systemd service file and I think I now understand the problem. I'll describe below, but I'm hoping there is a way around it which someone may be able to illuminate me on.

I am developing an rpm package with software which gets installed under /opt/my/bin/service. Imagine I have a corresponding directory in /opt/my/etc/systemd/system/my-service.service incorporated into the package. As part of the package installation the post install script runs systemctl enable /opt/my/etc/systemd/system/my-service.service

My service file has an After=basic.target, Before=network.target, WantedBy=Default.target, and ExecStart=/opt/my/bin/service.

All of the symlinks appear to be ok. After installation when the user runs systemctl start my-service.service everything works as expected.

However, when rebooting everything is not so nice. In the journal one can observe the error "Cannot add dependency job for unit my-service.service, ignoring: Unit not found."

/opt happens to be on a separate partition than / and /usr. I'm assuming during systemd startup that systemd is parsing everything before /opt is moutned and coming across a broken symlink /etc/systemd/system/my-service.service.

Is there any other solution than removing the symlink and installing my-service.service unit file in /etc/systemd/system directly?
We have a requirement to keep our software neatly confined in /opt/my.

Kind Regards,
Kevin

[Lennart Poettering]

Post by Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS)
Good Afternoon list,
I am having a problem with my systemd service file and I think I now understand the problem. I'll describe below, but I'm hoping there is a way around it which someone may be able to illuminate me on.
I am developing an rpm package with software which gets installed under /opt/my/bin/service. Imagine I have a corresponding directory in /opt/my/etc/systemd/system/my-service.service incorporated into the package. As part of the package installation the post install script runs systemctl enable /opt/my/etc/systemd/system/my-service.service
My service file has an After=basic.target, Before=network.target, WantedBy=Default.target, and ExecStart=/opt/my/bin/service.
All of the symlinks appear to be ok. After installation when the user runs systemctl start my-service.service everything works as expected.
However, when rebooting everything is not so nice. In the journal one can observe the error "Cannot add dependency job for unit my-service.service, ignoring: Unit not found."
/opt happens to be on a separate partition than / and /usr. I'm assuming during systemd startup that systemd is parsing everything before /opt is moutned and coming across a broken symlink /etc/systemd/system/my-service.service.
Is there any other solution than removing the symlink and installing my-service.service unit file in /etc/systemd/system directly?
We have a requirement to keep our software neatly confined in /opt/my.

We generally require that unit files reside in the search path at
early boot-up. The logic in systemd is designed so that the boot
transaction is calculated early on, and that means we need access to
all units that are supposed to start. Now, /opt is frequently split
out, and hence unit files can't really be located there... Sorry.

You can copy the unit file however in your case, no?

Lennart

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS) <

Post by Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS)
Good Afternoon list,
I am having a problem with my systemd service file and I think I now
understand the problem. I’ll describe below, but I’m hoping there is a way
around it which someone may be able to illuminate me on.
I am developing an rpm package with software which gets installed under
/opt/my/bin/service. Imagine I have a corresponding directory in
/opt/my/etc/systemd/system/my-service.service incorporated into the
package. As part of the package installation the post install script runs
systemctl enable /opt/my/etc/systemd/system/my-service.service
My service file has an After=basic.target, Before=network.target,
WantedBy=Default.target, and ExecStart=/opt/my/bin/service.
All of the symlinks appear to be ok. After installation when the user
runs systemctl start my-service.service everything works as expected.
However, when rebooting everything is not so nice. In the journal one can
observe the error “Cannot add dependency job for unit my-service.service,
ignoring: Unit not found.”
/opt happens to be on a separate partition than / and /usr. I’m assuming
during systemd startup that systemd is parsing everything before /opt is
moutned and coming across a broken symlink /etc/systemd/system/my-
service.service.
Is there any other solution than removing the symlink and installing
my-service.service unit file in /etc/systemd/system directly?
We have a requirement to keep our software neatly confined in /opt/my.

I guess you could pre-mount /opt from your initramfs, similar to the way an
external /usr is mounted?