Trouble installing bbswitch-monitor [AUR]

Leviathan42 · 10-03-2021, 05:59 AM

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?

mrmazda · 10-03-2021, 06:17 AM

Do you have any display manager installed and enabled?

Leviathan42 · 10-03-2021, 06:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmazda

Do you have any display manager installed and enabled?

I use KDE/SDDM

mrmazda · 10-03-2021, 11:33 PM

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?

Leviathan42 · 10-04-2021, 03:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmazda

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.

Leviathan42 · 10-04-2021, 10:54 AM

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!!!!!

mrmazda · 10-04-2021, 11:29 AM

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

Leviathan42 · 10-04-2021, 11:43 AM

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

ondoho · 10-04-2021, 11:53 PM

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".

Leviathan42 · 10-05-2021, 02:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

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

If you didn't remove it yet

It is still there

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

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

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

Leviathan42 · 10-05-2021, 08:15 AM

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"
}

ondoho · 10-06-2021, 02:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leviathan42

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.

Leviathan42 · 10-07-2021, 03:25 AM

Ok, but how can i do that?

ondoho · 10-07-2021, 11:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leviathan42

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.