Package: mtail Version: 3.0.0~rc43-1+b1 Severity: important mtail.service fails to start on Bullseye due to cgroup v2 / unified hierarchy:
$ systemctl status mtail ● mtail.service - MTail Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/mtail.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2021-03-16 14:32:35 CET; 1s ago Process: 2082384 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mtail --progs /etc/mtail --logtostderr --port 3903 --logs $LOGS (code=killed, signal=TERM) Process: 2082385 ExecStartPost=/bin/sh -c echo 0 > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/system.slice/mtail.service/memory.swappiness (code=exited, status=2) Main PID: 2082384 (code=killed, signal=TERM) CPU: 49ms Indeed memory.swappiness isn't a thing anymore: $ find /sys/fs/cgroup/ -type f -iname 'memory.swappiness' $ -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers testing-security APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (400, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages mtail depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii daemon 0.7-1 ii init-system-helpers 1.60 ii libc6 2.31-9 ii tzdata 2021a-1 mtail recommends no packages. mtail suggests no packages. -- no debconf information