[arch-general] how to remove template service from systemd

[Damjan Georgievski]

if it's a failed service, you might need systemctl reset-failed

On 7 October 2015 at 13:43, Łukasz Michalski <lm at zork.pl> wrote:

>
>>> ● vboxvmservice at A.service - VBox Virtual Machine A Service
>>>     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/vboxvmservice at .service; enabled;
>>> vendor preset: disabled)
>>>     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2015-10-01 12:02:49
>>> CEST; 4
>>> days ago
>>>   Main PID: 15101 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
>>>
>>> How to mak systemd forget about this service? I checked
>>> /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ and there is no link for my
>>> service.
>>>
>>
>> If you change, add or remove service files:
>> $ systemctl daemon-reload
>>
>> And you may need to stop the service as Florian wrote.
>>
>>
> systemctl disable is not making this service disabled. The first call to
> "systemctl disable vboxvmservice at A" removed a link from
> /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ correctly.
>
> daemon-reload does not help.
>
> I suspect that reboot will get rid of it but on server I would not like to
> reboot just because systemctl shows failure of non existent service.
>
> Regards,
> Łukasz
>



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damjan