<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px">While my Debian system was starting up, I happened to look at the messages scrolling by; one caught my attention. <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12147"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12148">Looking through /var/logs/syslog, I found a similar message:<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12149"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12150"> systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile Files and Directories.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12151"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12152">Is this something I should be concerned about? Things seem to run normally despite the error.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12153"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12154">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. <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12155"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12156">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.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12157"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12159"><blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12252"># systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12160">● systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service - Create Volatile Files and Directories<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12161"> Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12162"> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-08-08 09:02:48 PDT; 25min ago<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12163"> Docs: man:tmpfiles.d(5)<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12164"> man:systemd-tmpfiles(8)<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12165"> Process: 498 ExecStart=/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove --boot --exclude-prefix=/dev (code=exited, status=1<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12166"> Main PID: 498 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12167"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12168">Aug 08 09:02:47 PZ01 systemd[1]: Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories...<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12169">Aug 08 09:02:47 PZ01 systemd-tmpfiles[498]: [/etc/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf:18] Unknown group 'lock'.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12170">Aug 08 09:02:48 PZ01 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12171">Aug 08 09:02:48 PZ01 systemd[1]: Failed to start Create Volatile Files and Directories.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12172">Aug 08 09:02:48 PZ01 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Unit entered failed state.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1533744584628_12173">Aug 08 09:02:48 PZ01 systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.<br></blockquote></div></body></html>