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All my ducks seem to be in order and the correct configs in the right place. But i keep getting this message. As you can see the file exists. It is not empty, but systemctl cannot find it. Any help would be very very appreciated.

•fedora 40 xfce spin •kernel 6.9.9.200 •fucking chromebook

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Where is the service file located on your system?

Did you create it with sudo systemctl edit --force --full, or did you use a text editor (or was it automatically generated by an installer)?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I made the file this way.

Cd /etc/systemd/system && touch spotifyd.service

Sudo nano -l spotifyd.service

Wrote, saved and quit. Then the commands above. I havent tried sudo systemctl edit —force —full

[–] LemoineFairclough 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You surely need to explicitly cause systemd to process changes after writing to a file. I would be very surprised if it reacted to file system changes automatically.

For example, I recall that I need to execute a command like systemctl daemon-reload after editing a service file: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/364782/what-does-systemctl-daemon-reload-do

You might get more useful information from resources like https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/systemctl.1.html

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

My knowledge is limited, but you should be using that command to create service files, from what I understand. There's some extra stuff that happens in the background (like putting symlinks in the correct places) after you write out the changes using that command.