http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1045723 Bug ID: 1045723 Summary: systemd no longer allows symlink /tmp => /var/tmp since Tumbleweed 20170620 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: x86-64 OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem Assignee: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: haenig@cosifan.de QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- following the update (at Jun 22 2017) several Services refuse to start, messages like those appeared in journal: systemd[1852]: apache2.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/sbin/start_apache2: No such file or directory systemd[1868]: ntpd.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/sbin/start-ntpd: No such file or directory systemd[3862]: rtkit-daemon.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/lib/rtkit/rtkit-daemon: No such file or directory systemctl status showed (e.g.) ... Process: 1852 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/start_apache2 -DSYSTEMD -DFOREGROUND -k start (code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE) Main PID: 1852 (code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE) XFCE Desktop is broken/unusable: - black background, no desktop icons, no context menue at right click on desktop - Thunderbird opens (from saved sesion) but nothing is selectable - task bar appears where it should be with seemingly all entries - 'Start' Button works, but only once, 'Start'-Menue pops up, but nothing is selectable - <Ctrl><Alt><Backspace> (double) terminates session => greeter reappears - at least this works some googling broght up a hint related to symlinked /tmp to /var/tmp and systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service showed something like 'error ... /var/tmp is no directory' using the recommended method (from man) # ln -s /dev/null /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf makes the error message from systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service go away but the overall problem persisted removing the symlink /tmp/ => /var/tmp and making /var/tmp a separate directory allows me to use the system again, but as I like to have all *tmp* reside within RAM disks I am now forced to create multiple of those -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.