[PVE-User] Service "systemd-tmpfiles-setup" fails since upgrade to PVE 7.x

[Gilberto Ferreira]

Hi
Did you make a full reboot after upgrade?
Silly question, but still...






Em qua., 8 de jun. de 2022 às 07:13, Frank Thommen <
f.thommen at dkfz-heidelberg.de> escreveu:

> Dear all,
>
> since the upgrade of our PVE environment from 6.x to 7.2-4 last week,
> our monitoring (CheckMK) registers, that the service
> "systemd-tmpfiles-setup" fails in all containers (not in the VMs,
> though).  The containers have been created from the provided CentOS 7.9
> templates and are fully updated. The containers have all been created
> under PVE 5.x and 6.x.
>
> I'm not familiar with "systemd-tmpfiles-setup" and I could not relate
> similar failure reports found in the net to our situation.
>
> The status that we get is:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> [root at odcf-vm119 ~]# systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
> ● systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service - Create Volatile Files and Directories
>     Loaded: loaded
> (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service; static; vendor
> preset: disabled)
>     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2022-06-07 12:28:04
> CEST; 23h ago
>       Docs: man:tmpfiles.d(5)
>             man:systemd-tmpfiles(8)
>    Process: 55 ExecStart=/usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove
> --boot --exclude-prefix=/dev (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>   Main PID: 55 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>
> Jun 07 12:28:03 odcf-vm119 systemd[1]: Starting Create Volatile Files
> and Directories...
> Jun 07 12:28:03 odcf-vm119 systemd-tmpfiles[55]: Failed to create
> directory or subvolume "/var/lib/machines": Operation not permitted
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd-tmpfiles[55]: Failed to create
> directory or subvolume "/tmp": Operation not permitted
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd-tmpfiles[55]: Failed to create
> directory or subvolume "/var/tmp": Operation not permitted
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service:
> main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile
> Files and Directories.
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd[1]: Unit
> systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service entered failed state.
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
> failed.
> [root at odcf-vm119 ~]#
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> journalctl tells me (manual extract from `journalctl -t systemd`):
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Jun 07 12:28:03 odcf-vm119 systemd[1]: Starting Create Volatile Files
> and Directories...
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd[1]: Started Load/Save Random Seed.
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service:
> main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile
> Files and Directories.
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd[1]: Unit
> systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service entered failed state.
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
> failed.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and (`journalctl -t systemd-tmpfiles`):
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> -- Logs begin at Tue 2022-06-07 12:28:03 CEST, end at Wed 2022-06-08
> 12:00:47 CEST. --
> Jun 07 12:28:03 odcf-vm119 systemd-tmpfiles[55]: Failed to create
> directory or subvolume "/var/lib/machines": Operation not permitted
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd-tmpfiles[55]: Failed to create
> directory or subvolume "/tmp": Operation not permitted
> Jun 07 12:28:04 odcf-vm119 systemd-tmpfiles[55]: Failed to create
> directory or subvolume "/var/tmp": Operation not permitted
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Can anyone tell, what the problem could be or in which direction we
> should try to search for the problem?
>
>
> I might also just migrate all containers to VMs, if that is a good or
> recommended solution to get rid of this problem.  I currently don't see
> the benefit of containers over VMs anyway at this moment :-)
>
> Cheers and thanks in advance
> Frank
>
>
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