BTSync doesn't start on system start (Debian jessie)


Jaroslav

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I've install btsync on a fresh Debian Jessie system (server). Used this documentation for installing: http://help.getsync.com/hc/en-us/articles/207689576-Installing-Sync-on-Linux

If I manually run `sudo service btsync start` it starts and works ok. But after the system restarts it doesn't start. Here is what I get from `sudo service btsync status`:

Apr 23 17:45:36 serveris systemd[1]: btsync.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Apr 23 17:45:36 serveris systemd[1]: Unit btsync.service entered failed state.
Apr 23 17:45:36 serveris systemd[1]: btsync.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Apr 23 17:45:36 serveris systemd[1]: Failed to start BitTorrent Sync service.
Apr 23 17:45:36 serveris systemd[1]: Unit btsync.service entered failed state.

 

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Jaroslav, does your system use systemd or sysvinit/upstart? If you have systemd did you try to enable automatic run using this command:

sudo systemctl enable btsync

If you have sysvinit or upstart there is no such a feature and you need to write a script to launch Sync after system starts.

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My I'm not sure which one is used :) But it's standard Debian Jessie installation.

When I run

sudo systemctl enable btsync

I get this:

Synchronizing state for btsync.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d...
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d btsync defaults
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d btsync enable

Then after restart I run

sudo service btsync status

and get

● btsync.service - BitTorrent Sync service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/btsync.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Tue 2016-04-26 22:49:59 EEST; 1min 41s ago
     Docs: http://help.getsync.com/
  Process: 1046 ExecStart=/usr/bin/btsync --config /etc/btsync/config.json (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 1042 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R btsync:btsync /var/run/btsync (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 1041 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/btsync (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1048 (code=exited, status=255)

Apr 26 22:49:59 serveris systemd[1]: Unit btsync.service entered failed state.
Apr 26 22:49:59 serveris systemd[1]: btsync.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Apr 26 22:49:59 serveris systemd[1]: Failed to start BitTorrent Sync service.
Apr 26 22:49:59 serveris systemd[1]: Unit btsync.service entered failed state.

Then I'm able to start it manually:

sudo service btsync start
sudo service btsync status 
● btsync.service - BitTorrent Sync service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/btsync.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Tue 2016-04-26 22:52:20 EEST; 6s ago
     Docs: http://help.getsync.com/
  Process: 1485 ExecStart=/usr/bin/btsync --config /etc/btsync/config.json (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 1482 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R btsync:btsync /var/run/btsync (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 1479 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/btsync (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1486 (btsync)
   CGroup: /system.slice/btsync.service
           └─1486 /usr/bin/btsync --config /etc/btsync/config.json

 

 

 

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Jaroslav, unfortunately I couldn't reproduce it. I've got the latest Debian Jessie iso for i386, installed Debian with some DE and added Sync. Then after reboot Sync starts correctly. Maybe you've tried to enable autostart under several users? Do you have another scripts to start Sync automatically? Or maybe some program causes Sync to start again?

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  • 2 months later...

Just fixed it! The problems was, SELinux is blocking btsync. When I run `journalctl -xe` it showed the error gave the instructions on how to fix it. Simply run these two commands :

ausearch -c 'btsync' --raw | audit2allow -M my-btsync
semodule -X 300 -i my-btsync.pp

 

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