On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 3:57 AM Gyorgy Szekely <hodito...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is what happens when I use DBus: (with busctl for the sake of this > discussion) > > $ busctl call org.freedesktop.systemd1 /org/freedesktop/systemd1 > org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager MaskUnitFiles asbb 1 > serial-getty@ttymxc0.service false false > a(sss) 1 "symlink" "/etc/systemd/system/serial-getty@ttymxc0.service" > "/dev/null" > > $ systemctl status serial-getty@ttymxc0.service > ● serial-getty@ttymxc0.service - Serial Getty on ttymxc0 > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/serial-getty@.service; > enabled; vendor preset: disabled) > Active: inactive (dead) > > The reported symlink is there in both cases, but while in the 1st case the > service is indeed masked and cannot be started, in the 2nd case no such thing > is reported and the service can be started.
It seems like the daemon hasn't been told to reload state based on the filesystem state. I wonder if it starts working if you run daemon-reload (or the DBus equivalent) afterwards. -- Dan
