[Bug 1815987] Re: Systemd-tmpfiles-setup won't launch in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[Sebastien Bacher]

Thank you for your bug report, what filesystem do you use? There are
similar warnings in bug #1804603

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Title:
  Systemd-tmpfiles-setup won't launch in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am using Ubuntu 18.04LTS, fresh install from the summer, and
  tmpfiles won't launch since November.

  $ sudo systemctl start systemd-tmpfiles-setup
  Job for systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
  See "systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
  $ sudo systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup
  ● systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service - Create Volatile Files and Directories
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2019-02-14 19:48:36 EST; 8s ago
       Docs: man:tmpfiles.d(5)
             man:systemd-tmpfiles(8)
    Process: 28934 ExecStart=/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove --boot --exclude-prefix=/dev (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 28934 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

  Feb 14 19:48:35 mythserver2018 systemd[1]: Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories...
  Feb 14 19:48:35 mythserver2018 systemd-tmpfiles[28934]: Unsafe symlinks encountered in /var/lib/colord/icc, refusing.
  Feb 14 19:48:35 mythserver2018 systemd-tmpfiles[28934]: Unsafe symlinks encountered in /var/lib/systemd/coredump, refusing.
  Feb 14 19:48:36 mythserver2018 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
  Feb 14 19:48:36 mythserver2018 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
  Feb 14 19:48:36 mythserver2018 systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile Files and Directories.

  Looking at /var/lib/colord/icc:
  kris at mythserver2018:/var/lib/colord/icc$ ls -a
  .  ..
  kris at mythserver2018:/var/lib/colord/icc$ 

  I have also deleted these directories and rebuilt them, just to be sure - they are NOT symlinked and have no permission issues:
  kris at mythserver2018:/var/lib/systemd$ ls -l
  total 28
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Feb  9 16:04 catalog
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Dec 28 07:04 coredump
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul  8  2018 coredumpold
  drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Feb  9 16:08 deb-systemd-helper-enabled
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov 14 18:31 deb-systemd-helper-masked
  -rw-------  1 root root  512 Feb  9 17:34 random-seed
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 10  2018 timers
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   27 Jul  8  2018 timesync -> ../private/systemd/timesync

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