I believe "Bad message" means there is a syntax error I had this problem with a service I created and it was because of a typo.
The following command might give you sone useful information: systemctl status wd.service On Sunday, 4 September 2016 20:00:37 UTC+1, Duncan8410 wrote: > > Folks > > I've written a service (wd.service) which I want to start at boot on my > BBB (running 3.8.13-bone70). I can use systemctl to start and stop it > using the commands > > systemctl start wd.service > > systemctl stop wd.service > > and everything works exactly as planned. However, when I try and get it > to load at boot using the command > > systemctl enable wd.service > > I get the response > > 'Failed to issue method call: Bad message' > > I've scouted asround on the internet for similar error messages and there > are plenty of examples of 'Failed to issue method call: No such file' > (which all seem to boil down to overwriting the symlinks used by systemd), > but nothing referring to 'Bad message'. It seems as though, for some > reason, systemctl doesn't understand (or won't accept) 'enable' as a valid > command, even though it seems that this absoltuely the standard way to get > services to load at boot. I've tried all the simple tricks I can think of, > like renaming it, putting in the explicit path to the unit file, rebooting > etc but all to no avail. (Incidentally, I get exactly the same response > using the 'disable' command). And there are only so many times you can > check 'enable' to see if it's spelt correctly. > > So now I'm stumped. Anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this? > > Any suggestions welcome, > > Thanks > > Duncan > > > > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/322d1c32-cd67-41a3-9b64-46174a07f4b2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.