Hello,
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:
systemctl --user restart archive-watch.service Failed to connect to user scope bus via local transport: Connection refused
The time that things stopped working was some time before: https://time.is/compare/0200PM_26_Feb_2026_in_Tokyo 3 hours prior to this, things were still fine.
Another strange thing I noticed was that the byobu/tmux session that was automatically created for me when I first logged in to tilde.club was gone. This is not a big deal, but it was surprising. I thought that maybe the system was rebooted recently, but that was not the case.
Anyway, any help getting user-level systemd services working again would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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?
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?
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