[SOLVED] systemd: ownership/permissions enforcement on /run

I'm running sabnzbd on my laptop, under systemd. I'm also running it as my own user, rather than the sabnzbd user. In order to do this, I need to be able to write a pidfile within /run/sabnzbd/. The permissions on this directory are 0755, and it is owned by sabnzbd:sabnzbd. So, I need the permissions to be 0775, so that my user (in the sabnzbd group) can write to this directory. I chmod'ed it manually, but something seems to be enforcing permissions (and even ownership, as I have also chowned it to my user only to see it return to 0755 and sabnzbd:sabnzbd).
Right now, as a workaround, I have a cronjob running every 5 mins that checks /run/sabnzbd and sets its permissions to 0775 if they are not set that way already. However, I'd like to find a more permanent solution. I've yet to find anything by searching the web, so I don't know if this is sabnzbd enforcing ownership/permissions or if it is something else. If anyone has more insight into this, it would be very much appreciated.
EDIT: Found it. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … rary_files
Last edited by archtaku (2012-10-14 23:59:17)

skanky wrote:mulit != multi
Spelling gets me every time.
Thanks for catching that.
I fixed the spelling mistake and update the service file to read:
[Unit]
Description=Set random wallpaper
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/scripts/wallpaper
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
It is working now. Thanks for the help.

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Hey archers,
hope someone here can help me
recently began testing systemd & I am facing a problem where I have to ctrl+d or give root password during every boot up due to systemd having problems with my ntfs partition ( i mount at boot as I have symlinks to that partition for documents & programs which run in wine)
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Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x ntfs-3g[568]: Version 2012.1.15 external FUSE 29
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x ntfs-3g[568]: Mounted /dev/sdb1 (Read-Write, label "Win7-sys", NTFS 3.1)
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x ntfs-3g[568]: Cmdline options: rw,noatime,sync,gid=100,umask=002
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x ntfs-3g[568]: Mount options: rw,sync,allow_other,nonempty,noatime,fsname=/dev/sdb1,blkdev,blksize=4096,default_permissions
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Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x mount[572]: Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x mount[572]: The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x mount[572]: could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: media-Win7.mount mount process exited, code=exited status=16
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job local-fs.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Triggering OnFailure= dependencies of local-fs.target.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job systemd-user-sessions.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job lightdm.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job graphical.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job multi-user.target/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job systemd-logind.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job dbus.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job [email protected]/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job hwclock.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job syslog-ng.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job network.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job cronie.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job snmpd.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job samba.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job webmin.service/start failed with result 'dependency'.
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd[1]: Job systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer/start failed with result 'dependency'.
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Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x systemd-journal[584]: Journal started
Aug 29 07:57:37 b0x ntfs-3g[568]: Unmounting /dev/sdb1 (Win7-sys)
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Aug 29 07:57:38 b0x systemd[1]: Startup finished in 3s 111ms 648us (kernel) + 6s 425ms 155us (userspace) = 9s 536ms 803us.
Aug 29 07:57:38 b0x systemd[582]: Failed at step EXEC spawning /bin/plymouth: No such file or directory
Aug 29 07:58:25 b0x systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit avani-dnsconfd.service, ignoring: Unit avani-dnsconfd.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system lo...e' for details.
Aug 29 07:58:25 b0x systemd[1]: Socket service syslog.service not loaded, refusing.
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x arch-modules-load[609]: mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/run/modules-load.d’: File exists
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x systemd-modules-load[706]: Module 'vhba' is already loaded
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x systemd-modules-load[706]: Module 'fuse' is already loaded
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x systemd-fsck[646]: public: clean, 385878/2039808 files, 5060668/8159011 blocks
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x systemd-fsck[653]: VM: clean, 228/5677056 files, 5637221/22680575 blocks
Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x systemd-fsck[644]: Home: clean, 90204/1327104 files, 984778/5305458 blocks
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Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x ntfs-3g[871]: Cmdline options: rw,gid=100,fmask=113,dmask=002
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Aug 29 07:58:26 b0x ntfs-3g[871]: Warning : using problematic uid==0 and gid!=0
Here is the entry in /etc/fstab for this partition:
## Entry for /dev/sdb1 SYSTEM:(Win7)
UUID=44083B9668A3E0CC /media/Win7 ntfs-3g gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002 0 0
I have been all over goggle & am unable to find out anything which can help.
As stated before I have links to this partition & so really want/need this partition to be mounted at boot.
Any help on this will be greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
EDIT #1
rebooted again, still the same happening
ran:
$ sudo mount -l
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=3022708k,nr_inodes=755677,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) [Arch-sys]
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=30,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
/dev/sdb3 on /media/wine type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [wine] <<<THIS SHOULD NOT BE HERE!<<<<<<<<<
/dev/sdd1 on /media/spare2 type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [spare2] <<<THIS SHOULD NOT BE HERE!<<<<<<<<<<
/dev/sdc1 on /media/spare type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [spare] <<<THIS SHOULD NOT BE HERE!<<<<<<<<<<<
/dev/sde1 on /media/USB-HDD2 type vfat (rw,noatime,sync,gid=100,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro) [USB-HDD2] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb4 on /media/pac type ext4 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [pac] <<<THIS SHOULD NOT BE HERE!
/dev/sdd1 on /media/Spare2 type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [spare2] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdc1 on /media/Spare type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [spare] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb2 on /media/VM type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [VM] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb3 on /var/wine type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [wine] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb4 on /var/cache/pacman type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [pac] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Win7 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096) [Win7-sys] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sda3 on /public type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [public] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
/dev/sda5 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) [Home] <<<<<THIS IS NORMAL
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /root/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0)
as you can see my partitions are being mounted TWICE which is not what I want or expected!
is there more documentation on what systemd does with mounts that could explain why i have multiple mount points for partitions or is this due to systemd discovering my partitions & mounting them at points based on label names & then parsing my FSTAB as well!
I have read the wikki but there is very small info there & the links have not provided an explanation for this unwanted behaviour
EDIT #2
>>>>>>>>>>>SOLVED<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
not an NTFS or FUSE issue
I had previously installed mnttools!
removed & now all is well
sorry
Last edited by t0m5k1 (2012-08-29 08:30:11)

OK,
After being spurred on to try to do this thing properly, this is what I came up with today.
My fstab line (for a USB NTFS disk):
/dev/sdb1 /media/samsung ntfs-3g noauto,users,rw,nodev 0 0
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the ntfs-3g binary to setuid-root, dealt with here: http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g … privileged (note- the instructions say this is discouraged, but it seems using ntfs partitions in linux requires some compromises).
I can now mount the drive as an ordinary user.
Then I set mpd back to run as user mpd, checked the audio group had access to all the mpd folders, and all was well.
One hiccup which you might not have: mpd was unable to access my (external) sound card at first. To solve this one, I used
chmod 770 /dev/snd -R && chgrp audio /dev/snd -R
As far as I can remember, that's everything.
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Task or script to monitor file ownership, permissions and change as needed

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What do I need here? An Automator workflow? A shell script? AppleScript? Cron? launchd? How do I put this together? I don't know the syntax or the expressions to use. Any help is much much appreciated. [Note again: My "server" runs Tiger 10.4.9.] Thanks.

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Note: I will set up a fourth account for our student renter later.
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Wholesale fixing of ownership & permissions

In previous attempt at transferring a whole disk of data, somewhere in the process the ownership & permissions of certain folders got set so that I can only read the folder. Others are set correctly.
This is a minor problem, but at least once a day I have to manually correct a folder's ownership & permissions settings.
Is there a way to fix all the folders at once??

Open the Terminal in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, and enter the following:
chmod -R u+w (drag the folder containing all the transferred data here)
Press Enter, and the account listed as the owner will be able to write everything inside this folder. Other solutions are available if you get an Operation not permitted error from the command.
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[Not solved]systemd-tmpfiles stat(/run/user/myuser/gvfs) failed: Perm

I get this error message since a couple of days and systemd-tmpfiles service is slow to start compared to before. I have no arch-units/initscripts anymore. I update everyday but I can see no updates that sticks out in pacman-log, on the day before this failure appeared. (systemd-tools was updated 3 days before this error)
Permissions;
/run/user
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 7 jun 10.51 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 340 7 jun 10.51 ..
drwx------ 3 myuser myuser 80 7 jun 10.51 myuser
/run/user/myuser
drwx------ 3 myuser myuser 80 7 jun 10.51 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 7 jun 10.51 ..
dr-x------ 2 myuser myuser 0 7 jun 10.51 gvfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 7 jun 10.51 X11-display -> /tmp/.X11-unix/X0
/run/user/myuser/gvfs
dr-x------ 2 myuser myuser 0 7 jun 10.51 .
drwx------ 3 myuser myuser 80 7 jun 10.51 ..
EDIT: Now I've look at the files;
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d
totalt 160K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K 2 jun 15.54 .
drwxr-xr-x 167 root root 128K 7 jun 07.34 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 1 jun 02.28 console.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 27 maj 06.29 consolekit.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 719 1 jun 02.28 legacy.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 729 1 jun 02.28 systemd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 449 1 jun 02.28 tmp.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 622 1 jun 02.28 x11.conf
And the only thing possibly close is; d /run/user 0755 root root 10d
from systemd.conf.
Last edited by swanson (2012-06-08 07:20:28)

Nope, error still there and no clue what's happening. It occurs without me trying to mount anything, no usb's, no phones and no disks.

[SOLVED] systemd-tmpfiles-clean takes a very long time to run

I've been having an issue for a while with systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service taking a very long time to run. I've tried to just ignore it, but it's really bothering me now.
Measuring by running:
# time systemd-tmpfiles --clean
systemd-tmpfiles --clean 11.63s user 110.37s system 10% cpu 19:00.67 total
I don't seem to have anything funky in any tmpfiles.d:
# ls /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/* /run/tmpfiles.d/* /etc/tmpfiles.d/* | pacman -Qo -
ls: cannot access /etc/tmpfiles.d/*: No such file or directory
error: No package owns /run/tmpfiles.d/kmod.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/gvfsd-fuse-tmpfiles.conf is owned by gvfs 1.20.1-2
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lastlog.conf is owned by shadow 4.1.5.1-9
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf is owned by systemd 212-3
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/libvirt.conf is owned by libvirt 1.2.4-1
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lighttpd.conf is owned by lighttpd 1.4.35-1
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lirc.conf is owned by lirc-utils 1:0.9.0-71
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/mkinitcpio.conf is owned by mkinitcpio 17-1
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nscd.conf is owned by glibc 2.19-4
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/postgresql.conf is owned by postgresql 9.3.4-1
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/samba.conf is owned by samba 4.1.7-1
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/slapd.conf is owned by openldap 2.4.39-1
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sudo.conf is owned by sudo 1.8.10.p2-1
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/svnserve.conf is owned by subversion 1.8.8-1
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf is owned by systemd 212-3
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd-nologin.conf is owned by systemd 212-3
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf is owned by systemd 212-3
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/uuidd.conf is owned by util-linux 2.24.1-6
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/x11.conf is owned by systemd 212-3
How do I debug why it is taking so long? I've looked in man 8 systemd-tmpfiles and on google, hoping to find some sort of --dubug option, but there seems to be none.
Is it some how possible to get a list of the directories that it looks at when it runs?
Anyone have any suggestions on how else to fix this.
Anyone else have this issue?
Thanks,
Gary
Last edited by garyvdm (2014-05-08 18:57:43)

Thank you very much falconindy. SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug helped my find my issue.
The cause of the problem was thousands of directories in /var/tmp/ created by a test suite with a broken clean up method. systemd-tmpfiles-clean was recursing through these, but not deleting them.

[SOLVED]Systemd: noftify-send running but not displaying

Hello,
I'm trying to get systemd to run a command that pops a notification on screen for me to get up and move around a bit (for my health). The script works if called in the command line and seems to be running fine in systemd. No notification is being displayed, however:
script:
#!/bin/bash
notify-send "Get up and move around!" "You've been sitting in one place for too long." --icon=dialog-information
Service is called move.service. Here is output of systemctl status move.service.
● move.service - Reminds you to move.
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/move.service; enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2014-11-29 09:39:07 EST; 21s ago
Process: 3797 ExecStart=/bin/bash /mnt/storage/kale/.Resources/scripts/move-around.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 3797 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
If I read this correctly, it executed as PID 3797 and finished 21 seconds ago (hence the dead state in active).
Here it is while running
● move.service - Reminds you to move.
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/move.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2014-11-29 09:49:11 EST; 11ms ago
Main PID: 4062 (bash)
CGroup: /system.slice/move.service
├─4062 /bin/bash /mnt/storage/kale/.Resources/scripts/move-around....
└─4063 notify-send Get up and move around! You've been sitting in ...
Nov 29 09:49:11 Uberziet systemd[1]: Starting Reminds you to move....
Nov 29 09:49:11 Uberziet systemd[1]: Started Reminds you to move..
Thanks
Last edited by Kale Good (2014-11-29 15:48:11)

Hello
I would not use systemd to do that.
Just write a script and have it running in background when you start your graphical session:
#!/bin/bash
while true; do
notify-send "Get up and move around!" "You've been sitting in one place for too long." --icon=dialog-information
sleep 7200
done
You can also look at this thread for other less KISS ways.

[solved] VBoxHeadless can't seem to run as a systemd service

I'm trying to write a simple service file for VBoxHeadless (for my headless server).
│[Unit]
Description=Virtualbox Headless WinXP VM
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm WinXP
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Somehow whenever I run it I get (from systemctl status) the following:-
% systemctl status vbox.service
vbox.service - Virtualbox Headless WinXP VM
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/vbox.service; disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:29:38 +0800; 2s ago
Process: 28938 ExecStart=/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm WinXP (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/vbox.service
This is the default Type=Simple, forking and oneshot does not seem to help. Any suggestions? Of course, just running /usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm WinXP works...
One interesting point to note is that VBoxHeadless is merely a symlink to VBox (which can't be run by itself). Not sure how useful that is. It might make sense for me to use VBoxManage instead, but if possible I'd like to get it working using VBoxHeadless since as far as I can tell that does the 'right thing' (tm).
Last edited by ngoonee (2012-08-27 00:52:26)

Hmm that doesnt work for me...
I have placed a file called vbox.service under /lib/systemd/system/vbox.service with the following content
[Unit]
Description=Virtualbox Headless VM
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm 4decf7c1-7eda-461c-92aa-835d2405a22e
ExecStop=/usr/bin/VBoxManage controlvm 4decf7c1-7eda-461c-92aa-835d2405a22e poweroff
User=my_user
[Install]
WantedBy=muti-user.target
If I start and stop it via
sudo systemctl start vbox and sudo systemctl stop vbox, everything works fine
Then i entered the following:
sudo systemctl enable vbox, but it wont start at boot
Here is the output
sudo systemctl status vbox
vbox.service - Virtualbox Headless VM
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/vbox.service; enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/vbox.service
Jan 05 02:38:59 exia pulseaudio[1428]: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
Jan 05 02:40:08 exia systemd[1]: Started Virtualbox Headless VM.
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia systemd[1]: Stopping Virtualbox Headless VM...
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia VBoxManage[1546]: 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia VBoxHeadless[1375]: Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.2.6_OSE
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia VBoxHeadless[1375]: (C) 2008-2012 Oracle Corporation
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia VBoxHeadless[1375]: All rights reserved.
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia VBoxHeadless[1375]: VRDE server is listening on port 3389.
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia VBoxHeadless[1375]: VRDE server is inactive.
Jan 05 02:42:02 exia systemd[1]: Stopped Virtualbox Headless VM.
/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm 4decf7c1-7eda-461c-92aa-835d2405a22e works fine
Any ideas, though?

[SOLVED] systemd: ownership/permissions enforcement on /run

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