Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-34-1.2.iso Something in KDE is stopping systemctl from creating the start up link. Makes a mess trying to use it with qemu-kvm: no clipboard, mouse gets confined, etc.. # systemctl enable spice-vdagentd The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy=, RequiredBy=, Also=, Alias= settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance= for template units). This means they are not meant to be enabled using systemctl. Possible reasons for having this kind of units are: • A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's .wants/ or .requires/ directory. • A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has a requirement dependency on it. • A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer, D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...). • In case of template units, the unit is meant to be enabled with some instance name specified.
It is activated by /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/70-spice-vdagentd.rules: ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="virtio-ports", ENV{DEVLINKS}=="/dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0", ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS}="spice-vdagentd.socket" and /usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.socket: [Unit] Description=Activation socket for spice guest agent daemon [Socket] ListenStream=/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock
Hi Nerijus, EVERY OTHER distro I have tested, `systemctl enable spice-vdagent` work properly: Xfce, weird old gnome, etc,. If "70-spice-vdagentd.rules" is wrong in KDE, why is it doing such and what need to be done to KDE's installer to fix it? -T
Hi Nerijus, EVERY OTHER distro I have tested, `systemctl enable spice-vdagent` work properly: Xfce, weird old gnome, etc,. If "70-spice-vdagentd.rules" is wrong in KDE, why is it doing such and what need to be done to KDE's installer to fix it? If this helps: both fresh power on boots): KDE VM (Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-34-1.2.iso): # systemctl status spice-vdagentd ○ spice-vdagentd.service - Agent daemon for Spice guests Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service; indire> Active: inactive (dead) TriggeredBy: ● spice-vdagentd.socket Gnome VM (Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34-1.2.iso): # systemctl status spice-vdagentd ● spice-vdagentd.service - Agent daemon for Spice guests Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service; indirect; > Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-07-12 15:17:32 PDT; 2h 1min ago TriggeredBy: ● spice-vdagentd.socket Process: 1190 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd $SPICE_VDAGENTD_EXTRA_ARGS> Main PID: 1195 (spice-vdagentd) Tasks: 3 (limit: 2329) Memory: 836.0K CPU: 1.125s CGroup: /system.slice/spice-vdagentd.service └─1195 /usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd Jul 12 17:04:51 fedora spice-vdagentd[1195]: Error getting active session: No d> Jul 12 17:04:51 fedora spice-vdagentd[1195]: Error getting active session: No d> Jul 12 17:04:51 fedora spice-vdagentd[1195]: Error getting active session: No d> Jul 12 17:04:53 fedora spice-vdagentd[1195]: opening vdagent virtio channel Jul 12 17:04:53 fedora spice-vdagentd[1195]: Set max clipboard: 104857600 Jul 12 17:04:53 fedora spice-vdagentd[1195]: Set max clipboard: 104857600 Jul 12 17:18:31 fedora spice-vdagentd[1195]: closed vdagent virtio channel Jul 12 17:18:34 fedora spice-vdagentd[1195]: opening vdagent virtio channel Jul 12 17:18:34 fedora spice-vdagentd[1195]: Set max clipboard: 104857600 Jul 12 17:18:34 fedora spice-vdagentd[1195]: Set max clipboard: 104857600 Xfce VM (Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-34-1.2.iso): $ systemctl status spice-vdagentd ● spice-vdagentd.service - Agent daemon for Spice guests Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service; enabled; v> Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-07-12 17:27:57 PDT; 12s ago TriggeredBy: ● spice-vdagentd.socket Process: 1191 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd $SPICE_VDAGENTD_EXTRA_ARGS> Main PID: 1193 (spice-vdagentd) Tasks: 3 (limit: 2330) Memory: 920.0K CPU: 30ms CGroup: /system.slice/spice-vdagentd.service └─1193 /usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd
Hi All, Host: Fedora 34 Xfce 4.14 qemu-kvm-5.2.0-8.fc34.x86_64 Virtual Machine (VM): KDE installed from ISO: Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-34-1.2.iso My assumption that "enable" was not working correctly is wrong. It is the .socket not hearing ListenStream=/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock and not triggering the .service that is at issue The thing is, it should start automatically, but does not. -T $ systemctl status spice-vdagentd.service ○ spice-vdagentd.service - Agent daemon for Spice guests Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service; indire> Active: inactive (dead) TriggeredBy: ● spice-vdagentd.socket $ systemctl status spice-vdagentd.socket ● spice-vdagentd.socket - Activation socket for spice guest agent daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.socket; static) Active: active (listening) since Mon 2021-07-12 22:35:53 PDT; 1min 36s> Triggers: ● spice-vdagentd.service Listen: /run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock (Stream) CGroup: /system.slice/spice-vdagentd.socket # cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service [Unit] Description=Agent daemon for Spice guests After=dbus.target Requires=spice-vdagentd.socket [Service] Type=forking EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/spice-vdagentd ExecStart=/usr/sbin/spice-vdagentd $SPICE_VDAGENTD_EXTRA_ARGS PIDFile=/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagentd.pid PrivateTmp=true Restart=on-failure [Install] Also=spice-vdagentd.socket # cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.socket [Unit] Description=Activation socket for spice guest agent daemon [Socket] ListenStream=/run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock $ systemctl status spice-vdagentd.service ○ spice-vdagentd.service - Agent daemon for Spice guests Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.service; indire> Active: inactive (dead) TriggeredBy: ● spice-vdagentd.socket $ systemctl status spice-vdagentd.socket ● spice-vdagentd.socket - Activation socket for spice guest agent daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/spice-vdagentd.socket; static) Active: active (listening) since Mon 2021-07-12 22:35:53 PDT; 1min 36s> Triggers: ● spice-vdagentd.service Listen: /run/spice-vdagentd/spice-vdagent-sock (Stream) CGroup: /system.slice/spice-vdagentd.socket
See bug #1951580 this has both a system-level and user-level component, the aforementioned bug is a work-in progress to provide a user level systemd service (and add appropriate dependencies to get it started for plasma environments) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1951580 ***
I see now this is more about the system part of the problem (which may be separate issue). If that's the case, feel free to re-open this one.