On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 07:05 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 11:27:43AM +0100, hw wrote: > > systemd[2241]: Started cgroupify@app-gnome-firefox-152280.scope.service. > > systemd[2241]: Started app-gnome-firefox-152280.scope - Application > > launched by gnome-shell. > > > > > > in the journal. That service is a file that doesn't seem to exist, > > and I can't see its contents: > > > > > > ls -la > > /run/user/1000/systemd/units/invocation\:app-gnome-firefox-152280.scope > > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 ... ... 32 Jan 16 10:47 > > /run/user/1000/systemd/units/invocation:app-gnome-firefox-152280.scope -> > > 47228f6ad8054d29a0d20c5517b76757 > > > > > > A file 47228f6ad8054d29a0d20c5517b76757 is not present where the link > > points to. What's with that? > > See, this is why we ask people to include their SHELL PROMPT along with > the command they type. The shell prompt would most likely contain > a "$" character or a "#" character, which would tell us who you were > when you ran this command. > > I'm betting you ran this as root, and this is why you can't see the > contents underneath /run/user/1000. > > Only user 1000 can see that.
Good point. I tried it both as root and as user 1000, and both can not display the file and the listing shows that the file the link points to does not exist as either user. There's only a bunch of links in that directory, apparently all pointing to files that don't exist. Don't you have that?
