Systemctl service timed out during start
Solution 1
Set the Type
of your service script either to simple
or oneshot
. Depending on the behavior of the shell script that is started.
- if the shell script runs an endless loop and does not exit, set
Type
tosimple
- otherwise set
Type
tooneshot
After you have made your changes reload the configuration with systemctl daemon-reload
and start your service.
Solution 2
I also had to add (or was it because I rebooted in the end, and TimeoutSec actually doesn't make a difference?)
TimeoutSec=0
As described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1446015#c7
The man systemd.service
command on my own systems tells me infinity
should be used for that. I guess both work.
Like so (Whatever GuessMainPID is, but this is how my currently working file looks like):
/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]
[Service]
Type=simple
TimeoutSec=0
GuessMainPID=false
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "funny stuff %I"
My service was triggered from an udev rule (as in http://blog.fraggod.net/2012/06/16/proper-ish-way-to-start-long-running-systemd-service-on-udev-event-device-hotplug.html), no Idea if that makes any difference. For anyone wondering how to get the timeout log: I had to run journalctl | tail
to see which kinds of errors my udev rule and service just produced.
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Mr.D
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Mr.D over 1 year
<I have created
*.service
and placed it in my/etc/systemd/system
folder:[Unit] Description=WSO2 IoT Message broker [Service] Environment="JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle" Type=forking ExecStart=/home/ubuntu/wso2iot-3.1.0/bin/broker.sh [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
I'm tying to run one of mudles of WSO2 IoT Server, but it does not matter.
When I launch this
bash
script manually, it loads for a long time and keeps in launched mode, because it runs something like web server application which then takes specific port.When I launch this service like this:
sudo systemctl start myservice.service
It takes a long time and then says:
Start operation timed out. Terminating.
I need to make this service just launched forever until I stop it manually.
What did I miss in my service config file?
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user1655072 over 4 yearscan anyone explain why change Type from 'fork' to 'simple' fixed this issue?