Bug 664080

Summary:	dnsmasq is missing a systemd unit file
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Randy Barlow <randy>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Randy Barlow 2018-08-20 01:35:57 UTC

Greetings!

I did a system update today and after the update I noticed that dnsmasq hadn't started up. After investigating, it seemed that the unit file was no longer being installed to /usr/lib/systemd/system as it used to be.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install dnsmasq on a systemd Gentoo install.
2. systemctl start dnsmasq
Actual Results:  
dnsmasq will not start due to missing unit file.

Expected Results:  
dnsmasq should start.

As a workaround, I've created a unit file in /etc/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service with the following contents, to use the unit file from the portage tree:

.include /usr/portage/net-dns/dnsmasq/files/dnsmasq.service-r1

Comment 1 Randy Barlow 2018-08-20 01:48:11 UTC

My mistake. I had a custom unit in /etc/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service that had the old path in an include statement (similar to what I wrote in my first comment). It seems that systemd unit files are now located in /lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service so my custom unit simply began to fail to locate the unit when the location changed.

Apologies for the noise.