systemctl --user doesn't load on startup, even though manual 'start' works well

I have systemctl --user set up, that doesn't activate the service on startup.

$ cat .config/systemd/user/syncthing.service [Unit] Description=Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization for %u Documentation=man:syncthing(1) After=network.target [Service] Environment=STNORESTRART=yes ExecStart=/usr/bin/syncthing -no-browser -no-restart -logflags=0 Restart=on-success [Install] WantedBy=default.target 

When I do enable - i get symlinks created:

$ systemctl --user reenable syncthing.service Removed /home/efim/.config/systemd/user/ Created symlink /home/efim/.config/systemd/user/ → /home/efim/.config/systemd/user/syncthing.service. 

But after I log into the system - the service is not running, and there are no errors in the journalctl

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

I want to set up syncthing on startup.

Initially I used systemctl with WantedBy=multi-user.target in /etc/systemd/system/syncthing@.service the process was executed on startup, but failed - maybe due to not being able to access encrypted home directory

I had similar problem as one described here:

So I tried to create a --user service, but something doesn't work either. If I do systemctl --user start syncthing.service it starts and works, but nothing happens at the startup.

Please help me troubleshoot this further.

Somewhere I've seen advice to check

$ systemctl --user list-dependencies default.target default.target ● ├─syncthing.service ● ├─ubuntu-report.path ● └─basic.target ● ├─paths.target ● ├─sockets.target ● │ ├─dbus.socket ● │ ├─dirmngr.socket ● │ ├─gpg-agent-browser.socket ● │ ├─gpg-agent-extra.socket ● │ ├─gpg-agent-ssh.socket ● │ ├─gpg-agent.socket ● │ └─snapd.session-agent.socket ● └─timers.target 

Here all are green apart from syncthing.service - it is grey, looks like "no errors", just "not started"

1 Answer

Didn't find a proper solution.
Added command systemctl --user start syncthing.service to my startup hook in XMonad