[SOLVED] Syncthing refuses to start

20 August 2020, 20:27:22

I'm still a newcomer so if I fail to to properly convey myself in the context of this forum. In other words I invite you to critique my way of doing/stating things so I may learn from it.

Now to the real issues. Just as the title says I cannot get runit to start the syncthing daemon like all the other services found in

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/etc/runit/runsvdir/current/

[edit: syncthing-runit is indeed installed] I made sure to check it wasn't running by executing

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$ ps -e | grep syncthing

. Yet the terminal output was empty.

Next I tried manually starting it with

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# sv up /run/runit/service/syncthing

I tried it 2 or 3 times, each time checking with

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$ ps -e | grep syncthing

as well as opening it GUI in Brave via localhost:8384.

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. If I'm omitting some important info somewhere, please do not hesitate to tell me. I fully intend to adhere to the forum standards once I've become familiar with them. Sadly, I either missed or there simply is no "Rules/Guidelines" subforum. For one, am I overdoing it with the code blocks??

Edit 1: Give context
Edit 2: misstype of syncthing
Edit 3: move "sv up" inside of the code block

Re: Syncthing refuses to start

Reply #1 – 21 August 2020, 09:51:55

Hello. I had a similar issue and I read the runit script.

https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,1618.msg11094.html#msg11094

You have to check the file /etc/conf.d/syncthing

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# User and group as which to run
#SYNCTHING_USER="syncthing"
#SYNCTHING_GROUP="syncthing"

So you have to create a user called "syncthing" within the group "synthing" or you have to edit the file with your user and group.

Best regards.