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Mario Palumbo
Asked: 2024-10-07 23:54:04 +0800 CST

The "timidity.service" service fails to start if it is run automatically at system startup

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After creating the timidity.service file and the related symlink to start the service automatically at system reboot, I rebooted the system and gave the following input:

sudo systemctl status timidity

Output:

× timidity.service - TiMidity++ Daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/timidity.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2024-10-07 16:34:46 CEST; 50s ago
    Process: 635 ExecStart=/usr/bin/timidity -iA Os (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 635 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 31ms

ott 07 16:34:46 netcom-Vostro-15-3510 systemd[1]: Started TiMidity++ Daemon.
ott 07 16:34:47 netcom-Vostro-15-3510 timidity[635]: jack_client_new: deprecated
ott 07 16:34:47 netcom-Vostro-15-3510 timidity[635]: Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
ott 07 16:34:47 netcom-Vostro-15-3510 timidity[635]: Cannot connect to server request channel
ott 07 16:34:47 netcom-Vostro-15-3510 timidity[635]: jack server is not running or cannot be started
ott 07 16:34:47 netcom-Vostro-15-3510 timidity[635]: JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
ott 07 16:34:47 netcom-Vostro-15-3510 timidity[635]: JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock
ott 07 16:34:47 netcom-Vostro-15-3510 timidity[635]: Couldn't open output device
ott 07 16:34:46 netcom-Vostro-15-3510 systemd[1]: timidity.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
ott 07 16:34:46 netcom-Vostro-15-3510 systemd[1]: timidity.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

My username is associated with the audio group.

Symlink:

/usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/timidity.service

Service:

/usr/lib/systemd/system/timidity.service

Contains:

[Unit]
Description=TiMidity++ Daemon
After=sound.target
Requires=sound.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/timidity -iA Os
Type=simple

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I also tried changing the "timidity.service" file to the following:

[Unit]
Description=TiMidity++ Daemon
After=pulseaudio.service
Requires=pulseaudio.service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/timidity -iA Os
Type=simple

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

But after rebooting the system again, the error is the same.

Trying to start the service manually from the terminal with the system already started, the service starts correctly.

What am I doing wrong?

22.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The solution is as follows:

    Service:

    /usr/lib/systemd/system/timidity.service

    Contains:

    [Unit]
Description=TiMidity++ Daemon

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/timidity -iA Os

[Install]
WantedBy=sound.target

    Start the service automatically on system reboot:

    sudo systemctl enable timidity

    Which creates the Symlink:

    /etc/systemd/system/sound.target.wants/timidity.service

    To make the automatic service startup not disableable via the command sudo systemctl disable timidity, then run this command instead of the one above:

    ln -sf ../timidity.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/sound.target.wants/timidity.service

    Which creates the Symlink:

    /usr/lib/systemd/system/sound.target.wants/timidity.service

    The folder sound.target.wants already exists inside the path just mentioned.

    This solution is multi-user and a user does not need to be part of the audio group.

    This solution works in 100% of system reboots.

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