service systemd-tmpfiles-setup fails to start

[Matteo Croce]

Service systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service fails to start because there are two duplicate lines in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d:

[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d]# grep -r '^d /var/log ' *
00rsyslog.conf:d /var/log 0775 root syslog -
var.conf:d /var/log 0755 - - -

[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d]# systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
● systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service - Create Volatile Files and Directories
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since gio 2015-03-19 22:40:05 CET; 11min ago
     Docs: man:tmpfiles.d(5)
           man:systemd-tmpfiles(8)
 Main PID: 430 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

mar 19 22:40:05 raver systemd[1]: Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories...
mar 19 22:40:05 raver systemd-tmpfiles[430]: [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:14] Duplicate line for path "/var/...ring.
mar 19 22:40:05 raver systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
mar 19 22:40:05 raver systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile Files and Directories.
mar 19 22:40:05 raver systemd[1]: Unit systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service entered failed state.
mar 19 22:40:05 raver systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service failed.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Oh, that's interesting, duplicated line is supported normally AFAIK. That's the case here, I have as well:
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/00rsyslog.conf:d /var/log 0775 root syslog -
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:d /var/log 0755 - - -

and systemd-tmpfiles-setup didn't fail here.
You have truncated lines in your systemctl status output ("Duplicate line for path "/var/...ring."), do you mind rerunning it with -l? Thanks

[Matteo Croce (teknoraver)]

weird, now it's active:

# systemctl status -l systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
● systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service - Create Volatile Files and Directories
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since lun 2015-03-23 16:20:26 CET; 17h ago
     Docs: man:tmpfiles.d(5)
           man:systemd-tmpfiles(8)
  Process: 689 ExecStart=/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove --boot --exclude-prefix=/dev (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 689 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service

mar 23 16:20:25 matteo-adb-notebook systemd[1]: Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories...
mar 23 16:20:25 matteo-adb-notebook systemd-tmpfiles[689]: [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf:14] Duplicate line for path "/var/log", ignoring.
mar 23 16:20:26 matteo-adb-notebook systemd[1]: Started Create Volatile Files and Directories.

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Were you running without rebooting with an older version of systemd than 219-4ubuntu3? This one contains the upstream commit 6487ada88d63e4998113f4c57fa10b7c865f8026, which was supposed to fix that.

Putting as incomplete as long as you can't reproduce with latest version.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The "duplicate line" is expected and just a red herring. It shouldn't fail to start up; this smells like a duplicate of bug 1431107, can you please have a look there and give me the output of "journalctl -b -p warning"?