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

[Frank Thommen]

yes :-)


On 08.06.22 13:06, Gilberto Ferreira wrote:
> Hi
> Did you make a full reboot after upgrade?
> Silly question, but still...
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> 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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