deepin linux (debian) portmaster service file removed after reboot

[arch-user-france1]

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What happened: After a reboot on Deepin there's no portmaster service anymore - I'd have to reinstall on every reboot.

What did you expect to happen?: I think you know

How did you reproduce it?:

1. Install Deepin
2. Install Portmaster
3. Start portmaster.service by sudo systemctl enable --now portmaster
4. Restart the whole systemd system
5. You will notice that the Portmaster notifier will show a red dot, try getting the status of Portmaster by systemctl status portmaster.service
6. You'll notice that the command gets auto-completed (TAB, bash) but systemd can't find any portmaster.service service
7. Try restarting Portmaster by sudo systemctl (re)start portmaster
8. Try starting Portmaster using the GUI Portmaster client, won't work either.

Debug Information:

Cannot start Portmaster

Additional Information: portmaster.service is in /opt/safing/portmaster

[arch-user-france1]

Looks like /etc/systemd/system/portmaster.service exists

Now it magiacally works again.

[arch-user-france1]

Still happening I had to manually copy the service file from opt to /etc/systemd/system after reboot. I somehow also had to daemon-reload which was not neccessary the first time.

[dhaavi]

Hey @arch-user-france1, thanks for reporting this.

How did you install portmaster? Using the .deb or manual install? Only the installer drops the file there, was happens then is up to the system.

I don't think the file should be copied. Rather, it should be symlinked.

Will assign to @ppacher to see if he has any ideas - my first impression is that this might be a system issue.

[arch-user-france1]

I noticed sometime that the unit file doesn't get deleted anymore or never was deleted, but instead I had to run daemon-reload every restart.

I don't trust Deepin Linux and suspect it's messing up. If it works fine on debian (which I don't have and I wiped Deepin), then we should close this issue. I don't have any other Debian based installation around anymore.

[ppacher]

Hi @arch-user-france1,

Since we also did a revamp of the installers lately (not yet released though) and it's working on Debian I'll close this issue for now. If anyone else with Deepin Linux can confirm and maybe debug the issue please just re-open it.