Hello!
Requirements:
I have Searched the forum for my issue and found nothing related or helpful
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OpenMandriva Lx version:
Rome 25.06
Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…):
KDE
Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
Issue with the system service for syncthing
Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):
syncthing.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
syncthing.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
syncthing.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4.
syncthing.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
syncthing.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Failed to start syncthing.service
My Analysis and Answer to the issue
I recently did a fresh install of OMLx. As I have always, I have loved it. I’m glad I did a fresh install as it helped me to run into a couple of issues with some base configurations. Syncthing was the first one on my mind, however.
The packager for the OpenMandriva release of Syncthing opted to include the systemd service file (Thanks so much! So much easier than writing our own, lol!).
However, the service was automatically enabled. I am of the opinion, perhaps wrongly, that this service should not be enabled by default and that the user should decide whether and when to enable the syncthing service. That’s just a preference–now for the problem.
Actual issue
It would appear that syncthing when enabled via systemctl using the global tag causes syncthing to hiccup and fail (logs above). It did this on every system startup without fail–on two machines (I did a fresh install on both my desktop and laptop).
I resolved the issue by:
sudo systemctl disable --global syncthing
Then enabling it as a service for just my user, by:
systemctl enable --user syncthing.service
It then ran perfectly fine without any issue whatsoever and has started gracefully at every bootup.
In Conclusion
What am I saying? I am asking the packager, on his next repackaging of syncthing (i.e. the next version he chooses to package for us) to change what systemd file to mark as used. Thus, disabling the global tag on the service activation.
Perhaps this is an issue only with my systems, however.
Either way, thanks so much.
