FYI, I've seen this on Linux VMs in my work life; typically, it's related to a startup race between systemd and the authentication system, and just restarting systemd (the entire service) resolves it.
On Sun, Mar 1, 2026 at 11:26 PM vort3 <vort3@tilde.club> wrote:
On Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:50:06 +0900
gg@tilde.club wrote:
> About 2 months ago, I had setup a user-level systemd service in
> ~gg/.config/systemd/user/archive-watch.service and it had worked fine
> until yesterday when it suddenly stopped. When I noticed something
> was wrong, I logged in to try to restart the service, I received this
> error:
If you don't mind sharing, what does this service do?