systemctl can't start indiwebmanager.service

[guilleortas]

Hi, I couldn't find any issues regarding this. The problem I'm facing is that systemctl cannot start the service.

indiweb is installed and works just fine when called normally from the terminal. However, the command 'sudo systemctl status indiwebmanager.service' shows 'inactive (dead)' I can't get it work start normally. I've tried restarting the service, disabling it, rebooting the device a bunch of times and completely removing the service from systemctl, but nothing seems to work.

I want to clarify this is the second install I performed of indiweb. The first worked without issue. Both were done on RPi 4b 4GB.

Any ideas? Thanks!

[bluthen]

Maybe can see why if you do:
sudo journalctl -u indiwebmanager

[guilleortas]

There is nothing at all on the journald log

[WLR86]

Make sure you set the right user (default : User=Pi) line 8 in /etc/systemd/system/indiwebmanager.service

[guilleortas]

yep, I had set my username on there

[bluthen]

What happens if you try to run it manually then?

As your user:

/usr/local/bin/indi-web -v 

[guilleortas]

If I launch it directly using the full path as my user it works without issue.
I have created a version of the systemctl service changing the executable to just "echo helloworld" and does not work either, any ideas?
The status of the service always stays at 'inactive (dead)' and there are no logs

[bluthen]

start copy and pasting stuff, status, your actual file, etc.

[guilleortas]

First of all, thank you for your help. My username is astromaker. Contents of /etc/systemd/system/indiwebmanager.service:

[Unit]
Description=INDI Web Manager
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=idle
# MUST SET YOUR USERNAME HERE.
User=astromaker
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/indi-web -v
Restart=always
RestartSec=5

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Commands issued in this order:

sudo chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/indiwebmanager.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable indiwebmanager.service
sudo reboot

(wait for reboot)

sudo systemctl status indiwebmanager.service

Output:

○ indiwebmanager.service - INDI Web Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/indiwebmanager.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)

Contents of journalctl:

sudo journalctl -u indiwebmanager
-- No entries --

If I run indiserver by calling it using the full path /usr/local/bin/indi-web -v it works just fine, but systemctl does not run it for the life of me.

[bluthen]

Maybe there is an issue with it starting enabled services at startup? What if you start it manually using systemctl? Does that start it?

sudo systemctl start indiwebmanager

You are using Raspberry Pi OS?

When you test it are you using any python virutal environments? Using anything like pyenv?

Really weird there is nothing at all in status. Looks like it isn't trying to start it to begin with. Maybe after a manual start there is some output?

[guilleortas]

Yes, I'm using Raspberry Pi OS, not using any virtual environments as per the readme instructions.
When I run sudo systemctl start indiwebmanager it never returns, seems like it never runs/starts the service

[bluthen]

I'm not sure why it behaving so differently for you. Maybe I'll have a fire up the latest raspberry pi os and try it out.

What if you change type in the service file to simple? idle I believe waits until everything has started, maybe you got something else not starting?

Type=simple

[guilleortas]

Yeah, no dice. Thank you so much for your help, though.
At this point I'm just starting it manually every time the system boots up.

[jfwells]

I had the same problem on rpi-os, it was systemd trying to start wayvnc, which never completed as I'm using X11 (and realVNC).

You can see what is causing your systemd to hang using systemd-analyze. If it's wayvnc, then disable that service then restart.