Resolved Strange systemd messages piling up

[tkalfaoglu]

Server operating system version

AlmaLinux

Plesk version and microupdate number

Obsidian

Every few seconds I see new entries in the logs like:

systemd[7051]: Failed to canonicalize path '/usr/local/psa/admin/.config/systemd/user.control/run-user-10123.mount.wants': Permission denied
systemd[7051]: Failed to canonicalize path '/usr/local/psa/admin/.config/systemd/user/run-user-10123.mount.wants': Permission denied
systemd[7051]: Failed to canonicalize path '/usr/local/psa/admin/.config/systemd/user.control/run-user-10123.mount.requires': Permission denied
systemd[7051]: Failed to canonicalize path '/usr/local/psa/admin/.config/systemd/user/run-user-10123.mount.requires': Permission denied
systemd[7051]: Failed to canonicalize path '/usr/local/psa/admin/.config/systemd/user.control/run-user-10123.mount.d': Permission denied
systemd[7051]: Failed to canonicalize path '/usr/local/psa/admin/.config/systemd/user/run-user-10123.mount.d': Permission denied

I checked and /usr/local/psa/admin/.config/systemd/user.control/ path did not exist on the system, so I created the user.control directory with chmod 777, but still the error continues..

The user 10123 exists on the system - regular web hosting customer.
But the user number keeps changing too -- a few seconds later I got the same "block" of errors for a different user number..

What shall I do?

 

[Onkeltom01]

I got the same errors.
Have you found a solution for that?

 

[IgorG]

This is NodeJS bug #EXTNODEJS-231.

As a possible workaround, create empty files that appear in the error message. For example:

# touch /usr/local/psa/admin/.config/systemd/user/run-user-10123.mount.d

 

[tkalfaoglu]

This is NodeJS bug #EXTNODEJS-231.

As a possible workaround, create empty files that appear in the error message. For example:

# touch /usr/local/psa/admin/.config/systemd/user/run-user-10123.mount.d

I tried that first, but the permission errors continued -- besides the system is very creative with the names and the userid's so you probably need to create hundreds of these files/folders.

I instead changed the systemd logging levels.. it's all quiet now!

 

[tkalfaoglu]

Unfortunately if I lower the logging levels I also miss some important information.. Is there any news about this bug?

I'm getting about a dozen of them EVERY SECOND..

Thanks!
-t

 

[tkalfaoglu]

This is NodeJS bug #EXTNODEJS-231.

As a possible workaround, create empty files that appear in the error message. For example:

# touch /usr/local/psa/admin/.config/systemd/user/run-user-10123.mount.d

Btw, I did that just now, I created all the files mentioned in journalctl , it still kept giving Permission Denied.. So I set them to 777, it still keeps giving Permission Denied..

 

[agarzon]

Is there any update about this bug?, is polluting the log system very hard.

 

[tkalfaoglu]

Not only the log pollution but also think of the useless I/O the system is doing.

 

[tkalfaoglu]

Btw you CAN disable the systemd logging -- or raise its level so it won't log anything or very little.
But that also stops other logging, like postfix I found.

 

[tkalfaoglu]

Any news on this issue?

 

[tkalfaoglu]

SOLVED -- sort of..
Requires relaxing the permissions somewhat..
# chmod 755 /usr/local/psa/admin/.config
(It was 700 before)

 

[agarzon]

2 years later, the BUG is still unresolved.