Problem Running a Service

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I am setting up a Fulcrum server of my Fedora Linux 37 (Workstation Edition) system.
I made a fulcrum.service file, enabled and started the service - unfortunately it will not run.
Could this be a permissions issue?

[g@fedora fulcrum]$ sudo systemctl enable fulcrum.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/fulcrum.service → /etc/systemd/system/fulcrum.service.
[g@fedora fulcrum]$ sudo systemctl start fulcrum.service
[g@fedora fulcrum]$ sudo systemctl status fulcrum.service
× fulcrum.service - Fulcrum
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/fulcrum.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2023-04-27 19:56:04 PDT; 28s ago
   Duration: 16ms
    Process: 15144 ExecStart=/home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum /home/g/fulcrum/fulcrum.conf (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
   Main PID: 15144 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
        CPU: 3ms
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Try running the code as the service would from a terminal and look for errors.

Turn on the any debug/verbose options to see if that provides clues.

I assume this is code you wrote and can debug.

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The systemd.exec document has: “The actual process execution failed (specifically, the execve(2) system call). Most likely this is caused by a missing or non-accessible executable file.”. Normally, linux user directories get drwx------. permissions so you may want to choose a different location for your server.

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I did not write this…I wish!

Could you please tell me how to run this in Terminal?

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I did try moving this to /usr/local/etc but when I went to enable service it gave me an error.
(I did rm the original service first following a guide)
Are we free to put a service file anywhere we choose?
If so, is there more that needs to be done for the service to be recognized?
Thank you.

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Does this Fulcrum work when you run it from the terminal, as your user? Assuming the ExecStart line is correct, you would run this:

/home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum /home/g/fulcrum/fulcrum.conf

Do you want the service to run it as your user, or as root?

Please post the full service file.

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Given it is installed in /home i assumed it was your code.
Where does the code come from?

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Perhaps it needs to be a user service rather than a system service. That is, its service file goes into /etc/systemd/user.

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Fulcrum is from here:

I am following this tutorial…although he is on Ubuntu:

Service file:

[Unit]
Description=Fulcrum
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum /home/g/fulcrum/fulcrum.conf
User=g
LimitNOFILE=8192
TimeoutStopSec=30min

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The Fulcrum executable is confirmed to be in /home/g/fulcrum
I am not sure how to run from Terminal, tried right clicking on Fulcrum in Files and choosing Run…then checked with:
journalctl -fu fulcrum.service
Result was same as in my original post.

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Post 6 above by @jn64 gave the exact command line to use for testing the program in a terminal window. I will repeat that since it is what is shown in the ExecStart line above.
/home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum /home/g/fulcrum/fulcrum.conf

Just to confirm this is not a permissions or an selinux issue. What are the permissions on /home, /home/g, /home/g/fulcrum, and /home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum.?
The output of the commands
ls -ldZ /home
ls -ldZ /home/g
ls -ldZ /home/g/fulcrum
&
ls -ldZ /home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum
will tell us that.

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g@fedora ~]$ /home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum /home/g/fulcrum/fulcrum.conf
/home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[g@fedora ~]$ 

[g@fedora ~]$ ls -ldZ /home
drwxr-xr-x. 1 root root system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 2 Aug  9  2022 /home
[g@fedora ~]$

[g@fedora ~]$ ls -ldZ /home/g
drwx------. 1 g g unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 522 Apr 27 19:29 /home/g
[g@fedora ~]$

[g@fedora ~]$ ls -ldZ /home/g/fulcrum
drwxr-xr-x. 1 g g unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 202 Apr 27 19:38 /home/g/fulcrum
[g@fedora ~]$

[g@fedora ~]$ ls -ldZ /home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum
-rwxrwx--x. 1 g g unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 17988488 Apr  9 09:31 /home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum
[g@fedora ~]$
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Can anyone please help me out with the latest requested outputs I posted?
Thank you.

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This would be a problem for the service to use that file. NO ONE but the user ‘g’ can access anything under that directory.

Permissions would need to be at a minimum 705 (drwx---r-x) for the service to be functional.

dnf provides */libbz2.so* tells me that that file is provided when you install bzip2

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Am I wrong in thinking that I need to be able to get Fulcrum to run first this way?

[g@fedora ~]$ cd fulcrum
[g@fedora fulcrum]$ ./Fulcrum -h
./Fulcrum: error while loading shared libraries: libbz2.so.1.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

When I list installed I see:
bzip2.x86_64
bzip2-libs.x86_64
But I do not see libbz2.so.1.0
Would it be in bzip2-libs.x86_64?

Thank you.

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Not trying to be a pain in the ass but…
Could you please define:
“the service” …fulcrum.service?
“that file” …Fulcrum executable?

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That seems a problem with Fulcrum not looking for the proper file from bzip2-libs

bzip2-libs-1.0.8-12.fc37.x86_64 : Libraries for applications using bzip2
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1
Filename    : /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0.8

I suspect that if you were to create a link with the proper name it would work.

# ls -l /usr/lib64/libbz2*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    11 Jul 20  2022 /usr/lib64/libbz2.so -> libbz2.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    15 Jul 20  2022 /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1 -> libbz2.so.1.0.8
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 76912 Jul 20  2022 /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0.8

I then created the link that is looked for by Fulcrum

# ln -s /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0.8 /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0

# ls -l /usr/lib64/libbz2*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    11 Jul 20  2022 /usr/lib64/libbz2.so -> libbz2.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    15 Jul 20  2022 /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1 -> libbz2.so.1.0.8
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    26 Apr 29 11:04 /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0 -> /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0.8
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 76912 Jul 20  2022 /usr/lib64/libbz2.so.1.0.8

It should then work.
If Fulcrum only asked for libbz2.so or libbz2.so.1 it should work as well with no kludge fixes.

I would file a bug report against Fulcrum (at the source) to get that fixed.

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Progress!
I can now start and run Fulcrum like this: (as recommended)

/home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum /home/g/fulcrum/fulcrum.conf

I am still getting a permission error however when checking status of fulcrum.service.

May 01 08:45:34 fedora systemd[1]: Started fulcrum.service - Fulcrum.
May 01 08:45:34 fedora (Fulcrum)[25985]: fulcrum.service: Failed to locate executable /home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum: Permission denied
May 01 08:45:34 fedora (Fulcrum)[25985]: fulcrum.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /home/g/fulcrum/Fulcrum: Permission denied
May 01 08:45:34 fedora systemd[1]: fulcrum.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
May 01 08:45:34 fedora systemd[1]: fulcrum.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
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Would I set permissions for the fulcrum folder that the Fulcrum executable is in or just for the Fulcrum executable?

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EVERY directory in the path would need those permissions.
Note that my post said that the directory with the problem was /home/g.