So I was trying to check the status of tuned with sudo systemctl status tuned
and for some reason it failing with a Permission Denied message:
× tuned.service - Dynamic System Tuning Daemon
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tuned.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
└─10-timeout-abort.conf, 50-keep-warm.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2025-04-13 15:14:34 -03; 2s ago
Invocation: 294e549cca444c16aaa5d8bc61f7e35e
Docs: man:tuned(8)
man:tuned.conf(5)
man:tuned-adm(8)
Process: 42633 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/tuned -l -P (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
Main PID: 42633 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
Mem peak: 1.2M
CPU: 11ms
Apr 13 15:14:34 bullwinkl3-84 systemd[1]: Starting tuned.service - Dynamic System Tuning Daemon...
Apr 13 15:14:34 bullwinkl3-84 (tuned)[42633]: tuned.service: Failed to execute /usr/sbin/tuned: Permission denied
Apr 13 15:14:34 bullwinkl3-84 (tuned)[42633]: tuned.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/tuned: Permission denied
Apr 13 15:14:34 bullwinkl3-84 systemd[1]: tuned.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
Apr 13 15:14:34 bullwinkl3-84 systemd[1]: tuned.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 13 15:14:34 bullwinkl3-84 systemd[1]: Failed to start tuned.service - Dynamic System Tuning Daemon.
Does anyone know why? here’s the output of sudo journalctl -xeu tuned.service
Apr 13 15:14:34 dommy-hostname systemd[1]: tuned.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
░░ Subject: Unit process exited
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ An ExecStart= process belonging to unit tuned.service has exited.
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░░ The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 203.
Apr 13 15:14:34 dommy-hostname systemd[1]: tuned.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ The unit tuned.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Apr 13 15:14:34 dommy-hostname systemd[1]: Failed to start tuned.service - Dynamic System Tuning Daemon.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit tuned.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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░░ A start job for unit tuned.service has finished with a failure.
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░░ The job identifier is 13311 and the job result is failed.
