systemd errors being reported

[Paul Brewer]

Hi,

Adam Williamson at RedHat suggested I post here, so please don't be too hard on me.

I have a couple of systemd units which are reported as in error:

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[palooka at f15 ~]$ systemctl list-units --all --no-pager|grep error
ip6tables.service         error  inactive dead          ip6tables.service
livesys-late.service      error  inactive dead          livesys-late.service
[palooka at f15 ~]$ sudo systemctl disable ip6tables.service
Couldn't find ip6tables.service.
[palooka at f15 ~]$ sudo systemctl disable livesys-late.service
Couldn't find livesys-late.service.
[palooka at f15 ~]$
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ip6tables is not installed on my system, and I know that livesys-late is a remnant of having installed from a Live CD.

As can be seen above, when I try to "disable" them, systemctl tells me that it can't find these services. So what I want to know is why are they being reported as in error, and how can I delete them, or otherwise remove them from the scope of systemctl?

Adam suggested I look for broken symlinks in /etc/systemd/system, but I see nothing untoward there:

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[palooka at f15 system]$ pwd
/etc/systemd/system
[palooka at f15 system]$ ls -lR
.:
total 24
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   42 Apr  8 22:33 dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service -> /lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   36 May 18 20:52 default.target -> /lib/systemd/system/graphical.target
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr  8 22:33 default.target.wants
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr  8 22:33 getty.target.wants
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May 18 20:18 graphical.target.wants
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May 21 22:43 multi-user.target.wants
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr  8 22:33 network.target.wants
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Apr  8 22:33 sysinit.target.wants

./default.target.wants:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 53 Apr  8 22:33 systemd-readahead-collect.service -> /lib/systemd/system/systemd-readahead-collect.service
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 52 Apr  8 22:33 systemd-readahead-replay.service -> /lib/systemd/system/systemd-readahead-replay.service

./getty.target.wants:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 34 Apr  8 22:33 getty at tty1.service -> /lib/systemd/system/getty at .service
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 34 Apr  8 22:33 getty at tty2.service -> /lib/systemd/system/getty at .service
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 34 Apr  8 22:33 getty at tty3.service -> /lib/systemd/system/getty at .service
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 34 Apr  8 22:33 getty at tty4.service -> /lib/systemd/system/getty at .service
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 34 Apr  8 22:33 getty at tty5.service -> /lib/systemd/system/getty at .service
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 34 Apr  8 22:33 getty at tty6.service -> /lib/systemd/system/getty at .service

./graphical.target.wants:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 49 Apr  8 22:33 system-setup-keyboard.service -> /lib/systemd/system/system-setup-keyboard.service

./multi-user.target.wants:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 33 Apr  8 22:33 crond.service -> /lib/systemd/system/crond.service
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 38 May 18 21:27 irqbalance.service -> /lib/systemd/system/irqbalance.service
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 42 Apr  8 22:33 NetworkManager.service -> /lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 35 Apr  8 22:33 ntpdate.service -> /lib/systemd/system/ntpdate.service
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 32 May 21 22:43 ntpd.service -> /lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 36 Apr  8 22:33 remote-fs.target -> /lib/systemd/system/remote-fs.target
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 35 Apr  8 22:33 rsyslog.service -> /lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service

./network.target.wants:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 42 Apr  8 22:33 NetworkManager.service -> /lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service

./sysinit.target.wants:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 40 Apr  8 22:33 hwclock-load.service -> /lib/systemd/system/hwclock-load.service
[palooka at f15 system]$
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Is there a problem?