Enabled user service not starting at login

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I’m not able to get Syncthing (v0.14.49) to start automatically on Ubuntu 18.04.2.

Using

systemctl --user start syncthing.service

the service starts fine.

I followed the docs but it doesn’t seem to take.

My Service file at ~/.config/systemd/user/syncthing.service is left at its default values:

[Unit]
Description=Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
Documentation=man:syncthing(1)

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/syncthing -no-browser -no-restart -logflags=0
Restart=on-failure
SuccessExitStatus=3 4
RestartForceExitStatus=3 4

# Hardening
SystemCallArchitectures=native
MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true
NoNewPrivileges=true

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

journalctl -e --user-unit=syncthing.service

says nothing about any startup attempt

systemctl --user status syncthing.service

Just says

● syncthing.service - Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization
   Loaded: loaded (/home/user/.config/systemd/user/syncthing.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
 Docs: man:syncthing(1)

Just adding it to ~/profile works, but I’d like to get it to work with systemd.

Any hints?

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Suggest you update to the latest version, that has the service file updated removing some of the conflicting hardening options.

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And if you install through apt with apt.syncthing.net placing the correct unit files in the right location is already taken care of for you.

4

Thanks for the suggestions. I completely purged syncthing, deleted remaining files and installed the stable version through the apt repository, now on 1.2.0.

Unfortunately nothing changed. I can start it just fine, but there is no mention in any logs about even trying to start it (that I could find).

The included unit file seems to be the same as the old ones as well. I even tried removing all hardening options to no avail.

5

Sorry, but this is more of a systemd question at this point than a syncthing question. I assume you enabled the service for a specific user?

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Its something like systemctl enable synthing@user.service or something like that.

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Yeah it may not be directly related to syncthing. I used the user service, haven’t tried it as a system one (syncthing@user.service).

I’ll try to find a solution and will post it here.

Thanks again!

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