[conspire] Failed to start

[Paul Zander]

While my Debian system was starting up, I happened to look at the messages scrolling by; one caught my attention. 

Looking through /var/logs/syslog, I found a similar message:

    systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile Files and Directories.

Is this something I should be concerned about?  Things seem to run normally despite the error.

I did a Google on that string, found a lot of entries.   One suggested running systemctl as follows.  The obvious part is that systemd is not happy. 

This system was installed several years ago, before systemd.   It was last upgraded a few weeks ago, but I think I had seen (and ignored) the message for some time.


# systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
● 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 Wed 2018-08-08 09:02:48 PDT; 25min ago
     Docs: man:tmpfiles.d(5)
           man:systemd-tmpfiles(8)
  Process: 498 ExecStart=/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove --boot --exclude-prefix=/dev (code=exited, status=1
 Main PID: 498 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 08 09:02:47 PZ01 systemd[1]: Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories...
Aug 08 09:02:47 PZ01 systemd-tmpfiles[498]: [/etc/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf:18] Unknown group 'lock'.
Aug 08 09:02:48 PZ01 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 08 09:02:48 PZ01 systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile Files and Directories.
Aug 08 09:02:48 PZ01 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Unit entered failed state.
Aug 08 09:02:48 PZ01 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

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