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Universal Blue•12h ago
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Trouble launching containers with Quadlet.

Hello there. I'm having a drop of trouble launching containers with quadlet, and was wondering if someone could give me a suggestion? I've created two container files with appropriate contents in the specified location (e.g.: ~/.config/containers/systemd/wger.container), and tried the commands, getting an error. 
$ systemctl --user daemon-reload
$ systemctl --user start wger
Failed to start wger.service: Unit wger.service not found.
$ systemctl --user daemon-reload
$ systemctl --user start wger
Failed to start wger.service: Unit wger.service not found.
This occurs with my other container as well. Is there some reason systemd would fail to recognize these services?
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DarkviewOP•6h ago
Okay. The solution here is interesting. There was an issue in the container file which is specifically a result of a change from podman to quadlet (specifically that Restart needs to be under a separate [Service] heading). I would have expected this to result in an error when trying to launch the service, but that does not happen. Instead it results in daemon-reload failing to recognize the container file as a service at all, and thus throwing no error. This strikes me as a thing that should probably be fixed in quadlet. For now, just good to know "Failed to start ... service not found" might be a silent error in the.container file syntax.

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