When systemd is installed sysstat always tries to install its service file directly to root to be able to enable it. This fails. The genrated code: if [ -x /usr/bin/systemctl -a -d "/usr/lib/systemd/system" ]; then \ install -m 644 sysstat.service /usr/lib/systemd/system; \ /usr/bin/systemctl enable sysstat.service; \ The result: /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file ‘/usr/lib/systemd/system/sysstat.service’: Permission denied The quick fix? Install into DESTDIR and do not try to enable the service (which might not even be in place yet). I have attached a patch that does this (applies cleanly against upstrea git, with offset -1 against Gentoo. # emerge --info Portage 2.2.7 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.17, 3.12.6-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.12.6-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 18488676 total, 11399640 free KiB Swap: 12582336 total, 12453936 free Timestamp of tree: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:30:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.6, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.1-r2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.12 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Created attachment 366822 [details, diff] Patch to install service file into destdir and remove enableing during "make install"
Created attachment 366824 [details] Build log without patch
Fixed without a revision bump. Thanks for the patch!
Created attachment 366978 [details, diff] 0001-Fix-install-with-systemd.patch Sorry, I realized the patch I gave you was invalid, it installs the file sysstat.service AS $(DESTDIR)$(SYSTEMD_UNIT_DIR), not into it. So a working patch is actually something more like the following.
Um, that's in the tree now replacing the previous patch. Please close this bug report as FIXED when you have again tested the new patch.
Now it works correctly. Thanks!
