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Trouble installing bbswitch-monitor [AUR]

I've installed bbswitch-monitor from AUR and as the github page says, you need to activate it using

Code:

systemctl --user enable bbswitch-monitor

but when running this command, i get

Code:

Unit /etc/xdg/systemd/user/bbswitch-monitor.service is added as a dependency to a non-existent unit graphical.target.

and it wont run after boot. Can anyone help me?

Do you have any display manager installed and enabled?

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmazda (Post 6288621)

Do you have any display manager installed and enabled?

I use KDE/SDDM

You might try reinstalling SDDM. If it doesn't work, try switching to LightDM or XDM. Graphical.target is systemd standard equipment. Have you disabled or masked it?

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmazda (Post 6288861)

You might try reinstalling SDDM. If it doesn't work, try switching to LightDM or XDM. Graphical.target is systemd standard equipment. Have you disabled or masked it?

No, havent done anything but switching themes and stuff. Reinstalling didnt help. Still the same error.

Now it gets weird:

systemctl list-units --type=target returns

Code:

UNIT                LOAD  ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION                            

  basic.target        loaded active active Basic System

  bluetooth.target    loaded active active Bluetooth Support

  cryptsetup.target  loaded active active Local Encrypted Volumes

  getty.target        loaded active active Login Prompts

  graphical.target    loaded active active Graphical Interface

  local-fs-pre.target loaded active active Preparation for Local File Systems

  local-fs.target    loaded active active Local File Systems

  multi-user.target  loaded active active Multi-User System

  network.target      loaded active active Network

  nss-lookup.target  loaded active active Host and Network Name Lookups

  paths.target        loaded active active Path Units

  remote-fs.target    loaded active active Remote File Systems

  slices.target      loaded active active Slice Units

  sockets.target      loaded active active Socket Units

  sound.target        loaded active active Sound Card

  swap.target        loaded active active Swaps

  sysinit.target      loaded active active System Initialization

  time-set.target    loaded active active System Time Set

  timers.target      loaded active active Timer Units

  veritysetup.target  loaded active active Local Verity Integrity Protected Volumes



LOAD  = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.

ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.

SUB    = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

20 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.

To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.

So graphical.target is there and active but i still get this error. WTF!!!!!

I'd find the maintainer's email address in the changelog and report to him about this.

The AUR repo has gone and the Github link returns 404. It has been up and working less than 48 hours ago. :O

Indeed it is.

If you still want to get to the bottom of this:

I can see that "systemctl --user list-units --type=target" gives fewer results. Maybe has something to do with it.
If you didn't remove it yet, you could show us the offending .service file, the PKGBUILD and any additional installation instructions.

That said, bbswitch-monitor described itself thusly:

Quote:

This is a simple applet built with Qt to monitor external GPU status, whether it's ON or OFF by querying /proc/acpi/bbswitch

That means you could probably recreate its functionality fairly easily with a quick'n'dirty shell script "daemon".

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho (Post 6289174)

If you still want to get to the bottom of this:

I can see that "systemctl --user list-units --type=target" gives fewer results.

systemctl --user list unity --type=target gives me

Code:

  UNIT          LOAD  ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION    

  basic.target  loaded active active Basic System

  default.target loaded active active Main User Target

  paths.target  loaded active active Paths

  sockets.target loaded active active Sockets

  timers.target  loaded active active Timers



LOAD  = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.

ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.

SUB    = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

5 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.

To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.

now graphical.target is not listed

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho (Post 6289174)

If you didn't remove it yet

It is still there

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho (Post 6289174)

you could show us the offending .service file

Code:

[Unit]

Description=System tray icon to monitor external GPU on/off status with Bumblebee



[Service]

Type=simple



ExecStart=bbswitch-monitor

Restart=always



[Install]

WantedBy=graphical.target

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho (Post 6289174)

the PKGBUILD and any additional installation instructions.

there is no PKGBUILD but only a "desc", "files" and "mtree" archive with "mtree.uncompressed" inside

desc:

Code:

%NAME%

bbswitch-monitor



%VERSION%

0.1.2-1



%BASE%

bbswitch-monitor



%DESC%

System tray icon to monitor external GPU on/off status with Bumblebee



%URL%

https://github.com/MicroDroid/bbswitch-monitor



%ARCH%

x86_64



%BUILDDATE%

1633258598



%INSTALLDATE%

1633258605



%PACKAGER%

Unknown Packager



%SIZE%

35007



%LICENSE%

MIT



%VALIDATION%

none



%DEPENDS%

bbswitch



%PROVIDES%

bbswitch-monitor

files:

Code:

%FILES%

etc/

etc/systemd/

etc/systemd/user/

etc/systemd/user/bbswitch-monitor.service

usr/

usr/local/

usr/local/bin/

usr/local/bin/bbswitch-monitor

and mtree.uncompressed

Code:

#mtree

/set type=file uid=0 gid=0 mode=644

./.BUILDINFO time=1633258598.0 size=40907 md5digest=b3054c637b07bf4e37a6ed85886f4e80 sha256digest=73f463674a8441c8f2cc139a21d534ca36ecdce3cb9a305097b5e74f2204d7bf

./.PKGINFO time=1633258598.0 size=441 md5digest=354915ae8da223306644e34b092a99f1 sha256digest=020385c963093a0f380942cb5b327ebb8d323da284d3aafd447776e4308e0f12

./etc time=1633258598.0 mode=755 type=dir

./etc/systemd time=1633258598.0 mode=755 type=dir

./etc/systemd/user time=1633258598.0 mode=755 type=dir

./etc/systemd/user/bbswitch-monitor.service time=1633258598.0 size=191 md5digest=ee8aa178e6197f6d6e27fcf5637b213b sha256digest=b51a9ca528b41852f16e2e471d41300b401cf6834fa853453ce0887272556c4a

./usr time=1633258598.0 mode=755 type=dir

./usr/local time=1633258598.0 mode=755 type=dir

./usr/local/bin time=1633258598.0 mode=755 type=dir

./usr/local/bin/bbswitch-monitor time=1633258598.0 mode=755 size=34816 md5digest=9c7e9b62d689f32fba282ef421bd832d sha256digest=90192117a91f76307aec24212a677c4e7cb7bac8109c1046933dce5a4e849b9e

i hope this is some useful information

Found the PKGBUILD:

Code:

# Maintainer: Yousef Sultan <yousef.su.2000@gmail.com>



pkgname=bbswitch-monitor

pkgver=0.1.2

pkgrel=1

pkgdesc="System tray icon to monitor external GPU on/off status with Bumblebee"

arch=('x86_64')

url='https://github.com/MicroDroid/bbswitch-monitor'

provides=('bbswitch-monitor')

license=('MIT')

depends=('bbswitch')

makedepends=('make' 'qt5-base')

source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/MicroDroid/bbswitch-monitor/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz")

sha512sums=('ebee8b42526f038581f25be0d71d94b30c6744b147a93858e3a1f08bd8d25ebc19e9d5a32b31eb19806616ef8a9c513d7d461fa0727548963db4333d8c5be567')



build() {

  mkdir -p "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/build/"

  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/build/"

  qmake ../bbswitch-monitor.pro PREFIX=/usr/local

  make VERSION=$pkgver DESTDIR="$pkgdir" PREFIX=/usr/local

}



package() {

  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/build"



  INSTALL_ROOT="$pkgdir" make VERSION=$pkgver DESTDIR="$pkgdir" PREFIX=/usr/local install



  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/local/bin"

  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/etc/systemd/user"



  echo "${pkgdir}"



  mv "$pkgdir/opt/bbswitch-monitor/bin/bbswitch-monitor" "$pkgdir/usr/local/bin"

  cp "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/bbswitch-monitor.service" "$pkgdir/etc/systemd/user"



  rm -r "$pkgdir/opt"



  printf "\033[1;33m--- NOTE: Don't forget to run: systemctl --user enable bbswitch-monitor\n"

}

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leviathan42 (Post 6289199)

now graphical.target is not listed

Yep.

But looking at this:

Code:

[Unit]

Description=System tray icon to monitor external GPU on/off status with Bumblebee



[Service]

Type=simple



ExecStart=bbswitch-monitor

Restart=always



[Install]

WantedBy=graphical.target

I think whoever wrote this service file wanted to execute a little graphical tray utility via systemd. That's not how systemd works, it does not cater to desktop environemnts in this particular way.

It was wise of them to remove the repo, I guess.

If you still want to autostart it you should do it via XDG or in some startup script.

Ok, but how can i do that?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leviathan42 (Post 6289793)

Ok, but how can i do that?

By clicking on the link I provided, and then further links in that article.
There's many different methods, even one involving systemd, lol.
I guess at least one of them is already implemented on your system, about which you provided no information at all so far.