On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:06:00AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 03:02, Gareth Evans <donots...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 02:54, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > >> A google search led me to <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47749> > >> which says that the /run/utmp file is supposed to be created by > >> "tmpfiles", specifically by the instructions in the configuration > >> file /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf . > >> > > > >> On my system, /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf contains this line: > >> > >> F! /run/utmp 0664 root utmp - > >> > > >> Does your system have this file, and if so, does it contain that line? > > > > Thanks, yes: > > > > $ sudo cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf | grep utmp > > F! /run/utmp 0664 root utmp - > > And fwiw (from a comment in the link you provided) > > $ sudo journalctl -b _COMM=systemd-tmpfiles > -- Journal begins at Sat 2021-08-21 14:27:06 BST, ends at Tue 2022-01-25 > 03:04:> > -- No entries --
Next thing to check seems to be: systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service Make sure it hasn't been disabled or masked, I suppose. The unit file contains this command: ExecStart=systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove --boot --exclude-prefix=/dev So, I guess make sure yours has that too. But hopefully you'll discover that it's been disabled or something silly like that, and then you can just enable it.
