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@.servicethe 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"

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1 Answer

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

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